Although I fiddled a little bit with UNIX systems in grad school years ago & am pretty adept with PC's in general, I was a little put-off by the prospect of partitioning my Windows system to install Linux. Fortunately, I found Knoppix & have been amazed with everything about it. Maybe that partition job will be worth my while after all.

It's also great to be able to run *NIX utilities that don't have equivalents on Windows (or for which the Windows ports are severely limited). While my workplace requires Windows, I now have a "portable" OS to get some of my jobs done.

Thanks to those responsible for Knoppix! Magic!