I actually just made the switch to Linux as well. I also was tired of windows. I am currently running Red Hat 7.2 Enigma and I am very very pleased with it.

I have an Geforce2 32 meg DDR card and a X-Gamer Live, both run beautifully. Although I haven''t got any new drivers for any of the fancier things you can do with the card, the default drivers worked perfect right outta the box. Also the Red Hat installation in ver7.2 is great, they have come a long way with it

I am just getting started programming with OpenGL/SDL as well also. Not had much time to get started on it atm. But I hope to soon, Also want to restart an old Level Editor project I was working on, building it with GTK+ this time.

Nice to see more people making the switch. Actually Glib is a pretty cool little library as well, GTK+ is built using it. Linus is a wonderful OS that provides much greater stability/security and I have no idea why I didn''t switch earlier. The open source was a big draw for me as well.

Hope you guys that are thinking bout switching do, and I hope it goes as well as it did for me.

Good Luck

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I havent tried slackware and from what I have read it is mostly manual configuration, correct me if I am wrong.

Well, it is a lot more manual than other distro''s . I still like Slackware . Although it isn''t hard, I wouldn''t suggest it to a Unix newbie. You do have to know what you''re doing a lot more than with RedHat or Mandrake (which I''ve also tried).

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