The times they are a changing...

[Moonliner]

Ever since I stated working with PC's professionally people always asked me about mac's. They’d say things like "Mac's are easier" or "cooler" etc... My response was always the same. I'm a PC guy because people PAY me to be a PC guy. When they start offering me money to support the Mac's then I'll learn it. I'm still waiting.....

Lately however I've started to notice an increasing demand that's entering the PC world. It's not Mac's but Linux. So today I took the plunge and purchased my first Linux book. Oh boy! I've got an old PC I plan to make into my Linux box. Should be an interesting project.

[TigerLily]

My bf does pc repair work. He has 3 or 4 different operating systems on his various computers. he also has a mac that we never turn on...LOL...is linux the one with the penguin..?....I just stick to windows... and when it stops working right I act blonde...then he fixes it..:)

[Name]

mmmmmmm, *nix

and for the confused, the *nix stands for all OS's that end in nix, or resemble Unix; be it Unix, Linux, or any of the flavors of them.

I'd make a list, but it'd be way too long.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Just remember one simply command and you're golden. "rm -rf /"

:evil:

[Monorail Man]

Free BSD all the way. ;)

[Moonliner]

So it looks like the first big question is flavor. In the Microsoft world we have vanilla. For Linux we have bloody Baskin-Robbins. So what's the finest of the flavors?

Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE, Slackware, Debian, Gentoo, Mandriva??? Anyone have any thoughts?

[Moonliner]

Just remember one simply command and you're golden. "rm -rf /"

:evil:

Cool, thanks. I don't have Linux installed at home yet (see previous post), but I'll try it out on the E-mail server up at work that runs Linux.

Thanks again! :)

[Name]

It really depends on what you want, as each flavor brings its own different thing to the table, do you want security, ease of installation, etc. Each distribution focuses on a certain aspect that they think is an important issue, either in the linux, or the computing world.

Oh, and this (http://www.linuxiso.org/) is one of my favorite places to get CD images of *nix distributions. I found it easier then searching each of the different distributions sites for a CD image.