I have been successfully using RedHat for the server in my computer lab for two years now. I am currently using RedHat 9 (not Enterprise!) RedHat is of course no longer supporting version 9 for free. My choices are now to go to the Fedora core to continue using a RedHat ish product or to jump ship and go to another server OS. Windoze in its various flavours is not an option. My question is, can anyone give me an objective reason to switch to SuSe? It costs (not lots but some), whereas Fedora is still free. What advantages will I get out of switching? Eventually, I envision making the entire lab, including workstations, Linux, the only stumbling block there is I NEED to be able to continue teaching Java Programming as well as Visual Basic Programming. From what I have read Java can be done on a linux workstation but I am unclear about Visual Basic. Answers to any or all of these questions would be greatly appreciated -- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 7.0.230 / Virus Database: 262.6.4 - Release Date: 3/29/2004