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Hey, I glanced over quite a few responses here and just cant sit back and not comment. 1st of all, Linux is the Kernel, not the distrobution. So no matter what Package of Linux you get, be sure you get a stable Kernel. As far as distrobution go, the market trend is RedHat so you might think thats definately the way to go. RH is the market choice right now because 1) they offer support 2) the offer certifications and 3) because they had enough money to market themselves. Whats good about RH is RPM's. I wont lie, i absolutely love them. They make tarballs seem prehistoric. Whats bad about RH is the same peoblem i have with all these popular distros: their interfaces are bloated useless garbage. RedHat's Config panel has tons of front end applications that allow you to interface command driven processes via a GUI. SuSE has Yast which is just as nasty. They all prety much have one of these and this is what is supposed to really 'make' the distro. Like XC was getting at, I think things like this encourage a level of laziness and blind you to the powerful inter workings of a UNIX based operating system. Not only that, but they are also not standardized and you will not see them on Solaris, or SCO, or IRIX. So you are wasting your time getting familiar with an interface that you may never use again should you decide to go to a different version of *nix. UNIX's ability to pipe and redirect I/O through the shell is one its very stongest points. The ability to take the output of one program, pipe it into the input of the next, and so on ad infinitum. This is what UNIX is renowned for. You should want to get as close to the kernel as possible by interacting with the shell and not double clicking on some bloated GUI. I agree with XC. Take the 'sink or swim' route and just dive right in. So take whatever distro you want and install it with maybe KDE or Gnome so from time to time you can browe the web, play mmedia files, or maybe use KDE's Dev IDE, etc. As far as the distro, who cares. Package systems like RPM make life easy, but UNIX has survived thus far w/o them and I am sure you could too. And they all lived happily ever after...The End. 
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