>"no market," but the radical truth is more like "We haven't a >clue of how to get money for it." Forgive a comment from an extreme newbie who doesn't even *have* Linux yet. I've been looking at the companies who make Linux preinstalled systems (there's a long list at linux.org), and they seem to have some kind of market niche because some of them use hardware that has been tested and is known to be Linux-compatible. With the Windoze dominance of the entire computing market, it's attractive to me to buy a system whose components are known to be compatible with Linux. It seems better than ordering elsewhere and not being sure the different parts of the system will work well with Linux. any comments or thoughts? Liz Liz Hare, Ph.D. Research Associate Animal Breeding and Genetics Group B47 Morrison Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255 2380 eh51 at cornell.edu