No kidding! :o) I switched over to Slackware after years of working exclusively with SunOS/Solaris. I was a major Solaris x86 hound until Sun Microsystems horked the x86 community back in 2002. By the time they relented, I'd moved on and never looked back.
I found redhat very easy to install and use, and will be running out this Christmas and picking up a cheapo machine from Fry's to run a Unix box once again. With all this junk MS is doing, it looks like any version of *nix is going to be worlds better then dealing with MS.
Agreed. I've been expanding my own home computing environment and even picked up a Mac Mini along the way. Not a bad piece of hardware for $600. Snagged the GCC computer for the platform and have been compiling my own tools for the system. Works pretty darned nice. I'll probably keep using it with MacOS until the edition I'm running is no longer supported...then I'll just load FreeBSD on it and run it as a mailserver or a DNS until it croaks.
Well at least they didn't shut it down completely, and leave the users totally abandoned like Red Hat did with "Red Hat Linux". ALL support was pulled in like what, 5 months? Meanwhileou can still get Solaris x86 today, and for the foreseeable future.
I think you meant "compiler". The one put out by that greenie Stallman, right?