There's still years to come 'till I become a Linux user. I just can't find anything useable for the work I do. I agree that it might be a better OS than Windows, but I go more for useability.

I usually install Red Hat on one of my computers to do small projects from time to time. Afterwards I uninstall it because I have so much hardware it can't detect any of it. I've tried TurboLinux, RedHat, and Debian - my favorite is RedHat. I think it has one of the best installations (not really, but compared to the others) out there and it's easy to configure. Also I like it's popularity.

main reason why i'm considering picking it up (i had actually decided TO pick it up, but then i spoke 2 u about the Oracle/SQL thing!) is b'cuz a coupla prog i was thinking of learning - in particular Oracle, starting with PL/SQL have versions that will run on Linux, which i can afford to do pretty quickly w/o much considering; for me to go to the expense of setting up a Win2K/SQL server environ will take a bit of justifying....

Hey,
If you have an unused system kickin around then i would recomend putin redhat on as the only system, one of the more powerfull fetures of linux is its network functions, load up the full system everything from the disks, then as you get in to it, start playin around with samba, dhcp, dns etc and use your windows box as the client.

using linux as a client machine just seems like a waist, when it can do so much more

have fun

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