Okay people, what OS (s) do you use? I mostly use Win XP Pro, but have one system with XP Pro and Mandrake 8.2.
If you want to learn Linux, Mandrake is one of the easiest to setup. There's another distro, the name escapes me, that's supposedly even easier than Mandrake to setup.
When I was in computer science, we started learning red hat 6.0, maybe that's the one you're talking about ?