Count me in, brothers. I bought an older laptop (366mhz) on a lark just to see if I could get Linux to make it sing. Tried a couple of the popular Live CD Distros (Slax, Knoppix 36, Knoppix 3.7, Mepis, Knoppix-STD) and now I am hooked. Finally settled on Mepis and installed it on the hard drive. Works like a champ - even on my ancient laptop. Now I'm burning Linux CD's and giving them away to friends to share the love. I can't believe how well this system works on just 128meg of RAM. So I haven't bothered to investigate any Linux speed tweaks - but I'll probably get around to it some day.
Just curiosity, does anybody have a handle on how secure or insecure Linux is? I tried Mepis mainly because it comes with a firewall that automatically installs itself. So that seemed sweet. Fell in love with it when it auto-configured all of my hardware without any human interference (well, except for my scroll mouse which is still DOA).
Anyway, I am a convert. Seems to be the only case where you
don't get what you pay for. I've used the free web browsers, FTP app, text processor, calculator, graphics viewer, etc etc and it all seems to be pretty top quality stuff. I can find nothing to complain about.
