All teachers read *The Guardian* :-) so you shouldn't have much trouble getting hold of a copy of today's edition from the staff room. In the "Online" tabloid supplement there is a full-page article about living with Linux, entitled "May the source be with you". For some bizarre reason there *isn't* a Web version of the article, at the online *Online* site ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/0,3147,179200,00.html ). I'd be happy for someone to correct me on this. (However there is a, ahem, an online version of another piece in today's *Online* about keeping the human genome open: http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,711981,00.html ---not that I'm obsessed or anything.) After his experiment, the (UNIX-friendly) author of the Linux article gives the usual "impressive, but not ready for primetime" verdict, though he did choose to download Red Hat to his PC, burn his own ISOs and then to do the install without a manual. Crazy. Everyone knows the best way for the newbie is to buy a boxed copy of SuSE---and "Have a lot of fun"... [Do I get my free-as-in-beer copy of SuSE 8.0 now, Roger?] -- Damian COUNSELL http://www.counsell.com/