Okay, this is it. I'm about to take the plunge into Linux, but my experience with dumb terminal-based Unix is over 20 years old. In the interim, I've been on Windows; a sometimes happy, but always frustrating and infuriating marriage of convenience and productivity-enslavement.
Debian Linux was recommended to me by a friend, but (this is embarrassing to admit, as I feel like a newbie all over again) quite frankly, I'm confusingly overwhelmed at the different products now available. Debian, RedHat, etc. Everybody says theirs is the best, but they cannot all be correct. I don't particularly want to go back to the command line, but I do appreciate the minimalist approach of Unix, especially from a security standpoint. Any suggestions to ease the mind and grease the process? rb ================= R. P. Bell Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]