*skip to <B>bold text</B> near bottom to avoid logorrhea*<P>I was thinking that if, maybe, I hold the CD-ROM in my hands and think good thoughts about Linus Torvalds, like him getting a job at Fry's ...

I remember back in the day when Linux was a challenge, even for computer scientists. It was all text-based; you had to manually format the hard drive, understand how networking functioned, and use the ...