nate said: > I have never used an IBM system(server at least) with their linux > solutions but I hear they are pretty decent. er slight correction I forgot that I had brief experience using SuSE linux on an IBM S/390 in one of their porting labs last year. No direct access, just ssh. My company was assigned a virtual machine to port their product to linux on S/390 for a big contract with a vendor that IBM and Sun were fighting over. nate