More Linux

The book I read to research this post was Linux All In One For Dummies 4th Edition by Emmet Dulaney which is an excellent book which I bought from kindle. Most people who use linux download it from the web but some pay a small fee for a disc from a linux vendor. A distro which is short for distributed operating system will often a load of extra software as well & is often on several cd-roms or a dvd-rom. There's even versions of linux that will work with a playstation 3. One tip I'd give is get some linux magazines because they often include a dvd-rom full of linux software & it saves the hassle of downloading the stuff from a website. A lot of linux software is very high quality & free. For example there's gimp which is a photo editor & blender which is a 3d modelling & design program & both of them are excellent. I got a book on examples of award winning sites & not a single one used gimp even though it's as fully featured as photoshop & it's free. Many companies are afraid of changing over to gimp in case they can't find employees who can use it & many potential employees would rather learn photoshop which is still an excellent program but costs over £500, because obviously it's easier to find a job using photoshop. I think gradually more & more companies will use linux more, it's already used more than windows for web servers. Although pretty much all linux distros adhere to the standards set for linux you're better off getting one of the more established versions because there might be the occassional compatibility problem running linux applications with less well known linux distros. Incidently the most downloaded linux distro is mint.