Rob- good point, but I was thinking about buying some commercial distros off the shelf. In fact, thinking about it, I could get them all, as well as a case of wine to enjoy while installing them. With the change I could send out for pizza for a couple of weeks, and all would be well in the world

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On the corporate front, I've always found that the pointy haired managers like to have a backside to kick when something goes wrong. With MS, you pay your several thousand a year to support your servers and desktops, and if something goes wrong, you can shout at somebody. Management gets to shout at somebody and feel all important, while SysAdmin are still hanging around waiting for a fix to the problem...<br>
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Doesn't get your problem fixed, but makes people feel important and needed.<br>
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Meanwhile in the Unix room we laugh quietly to ourselves as we check 'uptime' on our boxes and look at the budget savings we've made that can be spent elsewhere... Ie, bigger kit to run our Linux mail, web, etc servers on. And when a problem does come along, a quick search on Deja News or similar usually throws up a fix within a short time of searching.<br>
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It's a happy life in our Linux world, and I'm very glad to be here. Now if only I can resolve this issue that's preventing me upgrading these bleeding SCO servers... Hmmm.... (looks at various Linux distro CDs lying around...) Maybe... ;^)