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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To anonymous from norway:
games: Linux has several toolkits for developing games, including SDL, and you can make perfectly good 3D games with OpenGL. I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with Linux as a game development platform except not enough people use it, so most developers don't care about it. Don't expect this to change for a while. Games development is a mass market game. Linux isn't a mass market. There's zip all the Linux distributions can really do about it, except keep converting users until there's enough to get more companies porting their games to Linux. id and Bioware show it's perfectly possibly if developers are willing to try.
packaging: read my long explanation of why Linux style software packaging is both Good and Necessary on the previous n00b 9.1 osnews review. and distributions don't, by and large, have different directory structures. most of them adhere to the LSB directory structure. sure, some might put some software in /opt that others put in /usr, but it doesn't really make a hell of a lot of difference.