[B Knotts]

The only difference from winderz is it's still some command line stuff the average newbie might struggle with, but no different from dos commands really, all in all it's pretty nifty, and the gui is just as good as mac or windows, and redhats rpm manager and packages are easy to install.

Once you discover the true power of bash or tcsh, you'll be hooked. They're a LOT more powerful than CMD.EXE or COMMAND.COM. :-)

Another neat thing is even if you get fed up with sometimes-flaky PC hardware, you can run Linux (or NetBSD) on all sorts of other hardware.

[zog]

--OK! I'm game! hardware, yes, MO POWER! What's your sugggestions for used hardware for someone on a hotchocolate and instant coffee level budget?

[supercat]

Once you discover the true power of bash or tcsh, you'll be hooked. They're a LOT more powerful than CMD.EXE or COMMAND.COM. :-)

How's it compare with MPW, which is itself much more powerful than cmd.exe or command.com?