Yes, your right .. Linux is not the bargain it use to be..and it's also not as hard to configure, there is better hardware support, more apps, and it IS a better bargain now because you have time left for other things then making your own XFree config files. I think what people fail to realize is that you get so many apps for what you pay and what it costs to Q&A those apps to make sure they run well together costs a lot of cash to pay people to do it. The tech support that SuSE gives with their distr. costs a lot to maintain. I heard over and over and over again at Linuxworld how much better SuSE's tech support was than other distributions. Some people may not take advantage of the tech support..that's fine but a great many people do and it costs quite a bit for the salaries the support staff recieves. I would also look at the fact that SuSE houses these lists and does a lot for the community. All this costs money and I don't think SuSE charges to much. If one were to buy the "Oracle" ready edition of Redhat they would pay $2500 and with SuSE Professional you get all those tools for around $70 ... if one wishes to buy MS SQLserver and NT/2000 run it on you will pay through the nose for it. SuSE is nowhere near the cost that these other companies are and I REALLY wish people would look at the big picture instead of comparing SuSE to these other companies. SuSE has not raise their prices in YEARS..and not SuSE is just falling in line with other distributions. SuSE wants to provide the best service possible and give to the Linux community things such as ReiserFS, KDE, the kernel patches SuSE provides and a host of other development services, but these things also cost to develop and SuSE is still under other distributions in price for what the customer recieves...please think about this before making judgements against SuSE and comparing SuSE to M$ or Redhat. /end RANT * Timothy R. Butler (tbutler@uninetsolutions.com) [000819 12:11]: --> True. But Linux surely isn't the bargain it use to be - as I said before, I -- Cheers, Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ------------------------- "The only 'intuitive' interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned." -- 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/faq