> Anne, If I were a suse user, I'd certainly be looking for alternatives. I have tried suse, and the thing that seems to be missing is the equivalent of livna, freshrpms, et. al. If there are lots of 3rd party repos out there with pre-built binaries for suse, they are not getting much publicity. Maybe you'll be able to get all that 3rd party stuff on suse via Windows Update soon :-). (Actually, it probably won't be named suse very long - they'll have to change it to something like Linux.NET).
