I've been extremely pleased with Suse Professional 9.1. The Yast2 install/update system is the best I've seen; it picked up my memory stick and DVD player immediately and all my other hardware, which is more standard. The package is huge - 5 CDs - so there is a lot to play with. Down side; Professional is available only for purchase. A lighter 'Personal' desktop is available in live CD and downloadable .iso. I would actually recommend Personal for people new to Linux, as they probably won't be interested in the other four megabytes of Zope, Nagios, etc. Don't use Suse on systems with less than 256 Mb. RAM and an equivalent processor. Less than 512 MB / 1.5 GHz might leave you a little bored, too. You really pay for the KDE 3.2 desktop on smaller desktops. It might be worth waiting until November if you're interested in Professional. Novell will publish v. 9.2 then. John Reese _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list