With all the discussion about the costs of the various distros and the benefits it seems that we may be using some wording in a confusing way. Cheap can mean: 1. a product that doesn't work well 2. a product that doesn't cost much. I think that the proper way to refer to the monentary issue of a distro would be: Low cost Distro A can be a lower cost than Distro B. Distro Any is lower cost than Windows. Comparing features or distributed packages among distros would yield a cost vs. benefit. If this is done on ANY Linux distro I would imagine that we would find a much larger "cost vs. benefit" for a Linux distro vs. Windows 9x/Me/2000. Last time I checked Windows still doesn't come with development tools. You still have to buy Visual Something or other to develop (VB, Visual C++, etc) Of course there's also a benefit to not having to reboot the system everytime something is changed along with not having the system crash, etc. My 2 cents (1 pfennig) worth. Robert -- 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