Here is my opinion on the different dist. of Linux that I have used over the years.
Caldera Standard: Great if you never need technical support, modifiy your system, or want any documentation that is acurate. Since I do not know of anyone that can say that, I would not recomend it. Red Hat: Good distrubution. Installs easy, has good documentation, is really useable from the first reboot. It's update and packaging system is not very good. I have had a lot of trouble upgrading the system from version to version. Other then that, it works well. Slackware: Installs well, has very good doc's, and works well from the first reboot. It has no upgrade capability, and is difficult to get X to work just the way you want it. Debian: Installs well, has good doc's, and is very easy to modify. The upgrade system works very well with the utilities available. I have upgraded through mager versions with no problems. The only problem is when you get to the first reboot you hav quite a bit of configuration to do to get a really usable system. The upside of that is you have learned a lot from the configuration and will have no trouble in the future modifications. I hope this helps, I have been lucky in the fact that I have had the opertunity to run different dist. side by side for quite a while. That gave me a chance to compare them well. Of course, this is only my opinion. Brian Schramm -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .