They really are, and if you're a Windows user, they're going to more or less control everything about your PC. If you're a Windows user, find someone you know who uses Linux and ask them to help you migrate. You will want also to read this.

Soooo tired, got to bed well after midnight last night. Party was great though, had a great time, took some photos which, along with all the other sets I've still got on the camera, I will upload at some point. Reason I've not done it is that the /home partition on Amanda's machine is currently quite small and full compared to that on the laptop, so I'm waiting until I have a laptop again whether that be the beast, or a replacement.

YaST2=GTK+ Google Summer of Code project now has a student coder who in turn has a collection of mentors. Apparently it was the most popular project in terms of applicants. Seems GnUSE could well have a native YaST at some point - w00t!

SUSE Linux 10.1 boxed copy arrived yesterday too - many thanks to SUSE for providing this.