Must be "bad computer Karma" month- the Mobo on my backup PC died about 3 weeks ago- power supply zapped it.
Oddly enough, I tried SUSE's 9.1 home version, but the bleeding thing wouldn't log on to the internet, or let me log in to the system at startup ( naturally, being the one who set it up, I was administrator ) so I finally RMA'd it back to them. Ironically, their LiveCD that boots off the CD worked fine, so I suspect a defective disc.
Anyway, I am a-setting here looking at those CD's I burned and wondering "how badly do I want to learn yet another OS?"
RIGHTO!!!!!!
But you are some ways there, if you can run knoppix...
I am not a total novice since I had some training on AIX before I left Big Blue, but it didn't stick very well.