I measure lan speed by the reaction of my students who use it for
everyday work. Just try openoffice. We can't afford professional unix nor microsoft solutions anymore so we chose SuSE Linux instead. Now for
Steve, OpenOffice has nothing particularly to do with LAN nor with the Linux OS speed in general. It's slow application on its own, especially when it's starting up. I wish OO developers could improve its speed or may be create server-daemon version of OO which persistently runs in a server background, listens to client host connections and launches application upon request. Alex ------------------- their the
figures. Before Linux: lesson starts in about 10 minutes. Linux around 15. By next term I hope to reverse that. And I shall. Cheers, Steve.