I set up Red Hat v5 on a 486 back in college. That’s about all I did with it. The hardware had problems, so X-windows worked poorly, and I wasn’t about to learn command line when there was music to be downloaded. (on campus I could get up to 800k/sec transfers)
I just set up Yellow Dog Linux v2.2 on my iBook. I’m planning on taking a linux class this summer, so I thought I’d check to make sure it would work. It does, and now I’m finally using the “Teach yourself Linux in 24 hours” book I bought 4 years ago. I have to admit, it was much easier to install now, and it makes much more sense now that I’ve been working with OS X and unix.
I like OS X a lot more than KDE, but I’m going to keep trying. Open source and open mind or something.