Rand Dusing -you hijacked mark03's thread, we were hoping to get him going on dialup- SuSE is one of the best all around Linux distros, great for newbies, powerful configuration tools, ton's of included software in the Professional version, and all the advanced power of Linux. BTW: SuSE 9 Professional for a home server, the Personal edition is not a good choice for a server because a lot of server software/tools are left out.