> I'm really not a senior member around here and while all this licensing > stuff and underlying fs between OSs is very interesting can we please > think twice before continuing it. Agree, there are other lists for this stuff; and back to what one of the original posters said: it doesn't matter much. [Also not a regular poster, but I always gain something from reading this list.] Most people who really go into OS selection / FS selection are looking for a cheap/silver bullet for performance. No such thing exists. The difference made by any modern OS/FS is almost immaterial. You need to do the slow slogging work of site/application specific optimization and tuning; that is where you will find significant performance improvements. - Adam Tauno Williams, Network & Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org