From: "Chee Kiong Ong" <fru5tr4t10n@xxxxxxxx> > thks alot Duncan...=) mickey, an interesting site for some reviews of different distributions is http://www.distrowatch.com/. The more popular distributions today include this one, Fedora, and the SUSE, Mandrake, Debian, RHEL, and perhaps Slackware. My impression of Debian and Slackware from listening to people comment is that they are not for novices no how no way. That leaves Fedora, RHEL, Mandrake, and SUSE. I do not know how the support lists for the other distributions goes; but, this one is quite active. It seems people who ask here get help relatively promptly given list latencies and all that. None of the four, however, would be a particularly bad first shot at something different. Be aware that super duper absilute latest state of the art whizbang gamer machines don't do as well on Linux as machines about 6 months to a year behind the power curve. It takes awhile for the open source drivers to be developed. So as a result Linux is a few percent less gewgaw filled than Windows. And further some Windows features, which are major security holes, are simply not implemented. A subset of them probably never should be implemented. In return for an OS that is a little less feature rich than Windows XP you get greater stability and an OS that very seldom requires you to reboot for any reason. You can update everything other than the kernel itself without a reboot. (Given the way I operate this is my greatest frustration with making my income via programming broadcast video firmware that runs on Windows systems.) {^_^}
