There are more Linux distros out there then there are stars in the sky. No really, I do mean it.


Seriousally though, there are alot.

I don't know if Gentoo still does it, but(if they still work) I got some old Gentoo CD's where you compile the kernel up in order to get it most optimized to your system. At the time people told me it could be a multiday process(which to put it simply freaked me out(and made me think they were bulling me at the same time), but I really did enjoy playing with it back a while ago).

Whatever Linux you get I would recomend playing around with it some, they are quite fun systems. Also at least at my college, The Graphical mode of Linux is rarely to never used so get used to navigating command line. That was the hardest part for some of the people in my networking class(surprised me, I always thought command line was simple, but I did grow up with DOS based computers before any others so I guess I am biased).


To Bipper;

What is wrong with redhat/fedora? I certianlly didn't enjoy them as much as the Gentoo I played with, however, they didn't seem to deserve as harse as you gave(I reserve that for the likes of the Lindows we had to install and use for our finals.... good god(pardon my language if it is offensive) was that a pain and an annoyance to get all the stuff compiled from source to install on it). Just to make the quick note, We used many different distros and made heavy use of Vi(which is officially the coolest editor known to mankind :P); however, due to the text the teacher was teaching from alot was done on Fedora.

Err... and I lost my train of thought.