Here's a geek's reasons for leaving the safety of Windows for uncharted territory. I'm sure that anyone even remotely interested in computers must have heard of Linux by now. Some have wondered what it is, others have tried installing it. Yet others play with it now and then.
Some people bless it and some curse it.
Some are scared of the apparent need to learn arcane commands. Linus Torvalds, the man behind Linux, says that it is not the cure for world hunger. It is an operating system, somewhat similar to Unix. All these are packaged together as a distribution. There are many distributions available like Red Hat , Slackware , Caldera , SuSE , Mandrake .