Beware the Penguin
Wow I feel so geeky, I'm using Mandrake Linux, Open Office 1.0 and Mozzila to make this post. Yes, I use a word processor to proof my posts...so much for gramarical and spelling rebellion.
I'm digging it so far, a guy I work with gave me the CD's and installed it on my old work PC. It's only a 400MHz PII with a 138M of RAM. It doesn't move real quick, but that could be because the system specs are pretty dated. Still it runs as well as XP did and this was all free. The installation was easy enough, I didn't have any problems with it and it has been a long long time since I've dealt with Unix...I bought Linux when it came out back in the day, but never messed with it because I couldn't play Civ. :-)
It installed all sorts of things for me, several different browsers and Open Office, which in some respects is nice. I'm still getting a feel for it, but right now I think it isn't something I would want one of our secrataries using...though I admit that may be because I don't know how to set it up properly
Interestingly I couldn't copy and paste from OpenOffice to Mozzila, but I could to the Konqueror browser...curious.
I burgled a 64M DIMM and things seem to be running a little better. My hunger for RAM is growing...must...find...more...DIMMMMMMMS!!!
Oh, sorry :-)