Help me please! - 03/24/05 11:23 AM
I have always had a vivid interest in computers but had not found an outlet for that interest until a fellow employee at a mom and pop electronics store turned me on to hacking. He advised me to first learn the ins and outs of windows as a kind of booster to see if I was really up to devoting time and money to learning everything I could. I've been going at windows for about twenty hours a week for the last three months. He found that to be an adequate level of devotion to recommend linux knoppix std so I could start getting serious about hacking. That is where my question comes in.I have been having trouble getting my hands on a distribution of linux. I am fully aware of the millions of mirrors out there but do not have the time or level of hardware to download one.I will probably end up just having a distribution shipped to me using good old fashioned box and postage stamp but would like input from people with a greater understanding of this before I make any decisions.