Hi everybody Thankx all for sharing your thoughts and experience in this regard. Actually, many places think seriously to switch to Linux OS. The only problem is that their staff are not trained to deal with this OS. The solution they are looking for is to either: 1. Push their staff to train themselves by themselves. 2. A more elegant way is to be certified (although as mentioned by somebody this does not mean too much). I believe that Linux can be better used in Academia and Companies since it provides a cheap UNIX-like system. There are also people who are against Linux and do not even want to considere it. Why?? Well, in my personal view, they are afraid to go to something they do not know and loose their status of experts in Windows for example. Think of somebody being a Windows or Unix network administrator since many years. How he is going to look at himself when dealing with this new OS for him. He will simply try to ignore it and pretend that it is not stable yet. As an anecdote: Somebody asked me to install Linux 6.3 on his PC. I did not have time at that very moment so he asked sombody else to help him in the installation process. That person installed RedHat 6.2. When I asked him why did you go to RedHat instead of SuSE. He simply replied that "RedHat is more stable". I fact he is not even familiar with the basic of the LINUX OS. This is just to give you an idea about how judgments are made on the-fly. Regards -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/