Linux and Windows

Seconded. I just finished building three Ubuntu systems, a co-located
server that I'm shipping off to a friend who owns an ISP, a controller
for a mill using EMC2, and a desktop system that is really a virtual
machine that runs on my laptop for software development work and to
hold my Orcad parts database.

And I hardly had to use my education at all except for the part where
I had to rebuild the kernel when I hosed the mill controller doing
something stupid. (Hosing it up required the grad degree, fixing it
was much easier.)

Speaking of which, I highly recommend a rescue CD known as "Insert" --
you can download it from sourceforge.

On 7/24/06, Lane Shutt <lmshutt@...> wrote:
>
> Ubuntu is almost as easy to install as windows. Software is simple as well.
> In fact I would say Ubuntu is about 80% of the way to being simple
> enough for the average user.