Linked by Michael Fraser on Sat 29th Mar 2003 03:21 UTC
When I first started playing with Linux (RedHat Distribution -- Version 5.2 Deluxe), it was a present from a father's friend in Boston. As I recall that is the only version of RedHat I ever got to work correctly without any major problems (like "Kernel Segmentation Error" or something to that effect).
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I agree with Mario on the 6-9 months...
I first tried linux "way back when" mandrake 8.0 first came out.
I remember installing it easily but kde2 disappointed me. It wasn't very stable (could have been because I didn't know what I was doing and screwed around with it too much). The wasn't any kde messengers for msn only gaim and everybuddy were the ones that I had found. Mozilla was only at 0.8 and crashed basically every time I used it. Konqueror was slow, no tabs, didn't work with java (sort of did). There was no "real" office suite. Openoffice was proably beta (I don't know if it even existed), koffice was still very early in progress and didn't do what I needed. StarOffice was 5.2 and I couldn't even install it.
But now, kde and gnome are very pleasing to the eye (i think). There are a ton of messengers, mozilla and all of its cousins are just great. Openoffice is getting better (new beta out).
My point is that there has been so much improvement in the last 2 years that given the time linux will eventually take off.
p.s.
I don't use mandrake but it looks like 9.1 is their best release yet!