Thank you to all that replied, and for the link from Felix. To answer
Felix's question, my reason for considering Linux is that Windows seems to
be going in a direction that is not consistent with my needs. I don't need a
consistent interface between my cellphone and desktop. Reason for my
immediate interest, however, is that I needed to do a simple text extraction
repeatedly and it is so easy under UNIX using SED and GREP, but is difficult
to do with Windows. I did download Windows versions of those programs and
got my job done, but it got me to thinking that perhaps switching to Linux
as an alternative to Windows may be an appropriate move.

Peter Shkabara
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-----Original Message-----
From: Felix Miata [mailto:[log in to unmask]]

> I have been away from Linux and other UNIX like operating systems for
> a while. Any recommendations for a desktop Linux of free BSD to use now?

If you really have no idea what to pick you should peruse
http://distrowatch.com/ to see how various distros fare in popularity based
on page hits on that site. It has a whole lot of other useful shoppin info
too.

You don't provide any info on why you want Linux or what you plan to do with
it, so the only feedback you can expect here is what people who see your
post here use who bother to reply.

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