i have worked as sysadmin on unix systems for years, but it wouldnt hurt to dispense a little advic to novice users who havent worked on linux or unix before. But no, the folks here have the high handed belief that anyone who knows a bit of linux is much better than the rest of us. and the world is an idiotic place without any flavour of nix. Wake up i say. this is the reason linux could never catchu up with windows. user friendliness. i have worked on solaris aix and rhel4, but i prefer an xp machine to do my daily work tasks. sure the enterprise apps in my company run on nix flavours and nothing beats that. but i m not smug about it and dont think that makes any less of an os than any of the other unix flavoured oses i mentioned. respect apple for what it has bought to the table. only if nokia could take a few lessons out of it and get their act together, before it becomes the 900th distro of an abstract os.