Everybody keeps recommending Yellow Dog Linux to me and the YDL website makes it look like a good OS. It does seem to be a little large and complex and graphical, particularly for my initial experiments, which I want to focus on the command line and on the old traditional unix type programs so I can get a good foundation in how to use that stuff.
You can install the GUI layer (X Windows), but only use it when you want to. If you set the machine to boot to run level 3, it will boot to the command prompt. Then if you want to use the GUI layer, you can start it with "startx". Once you "log out" from the GUI layer, you will be back at the command prompt. That way, you can use whatever tools suit your needs as they change.
If command line is where you want to be, I would recommend you stay _away_ from Mandrake. Many of the command line tools require GUI programs to be installed because of the way they have packaged the software components. That is one of the reasons I have stayed with YDL, it allows installs without a bunch of X Window stuff.
Charles Dostale System Admin - Silver Oaks Communications http://www.silveroaks.com/ 824 17th Street, Moline IL 61265 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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