[Rain-maker]

It's not very ideal to heavily promote a new software operating system in a declining economy. Linux also needs more software vendor support, and current developers are struggling just to make their new Windows based software marketable.

The industry needs a second choice in PC OS's, but the timing is bad.

[Illbay]

Well, the timing wasn't bad for me. I got sick of the system reboots, etc., from Windows XP and just switched to Red Hat Linux.

I have a Sony VAIO notebook computer that I can use if I just HAVE to use a Windows version of a program, but for most of the stuff I do--Internet browsing, email, office documents, etc.--I can just use Linux.

I have NOT been a proponent of Linux on the desktop before now, but Red Hat 8.0 has won me almost completely over.

Now, instead of posting this with MSIE, I'm using Mozilla. It's sweet.