Bad dog! No pulverized meat-byproduct for you tonight.

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Ok, on topic. Proto-linux. Never heard of it. Linspire(or Suse) would be the way to go if you're insistent upon paying for a distro. All of the software packages on the disk that they're touting are al standard across the field AND OPEN SOURCE (free). This is tantamount to a scam (not really but close). Fancy up some open source distro and market the hell out of it.

The larger distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, and my personal fav Gentoo). Wanna drop $20, do it on a book and dive in. If you want to nail yourself to a functionally lame distro with maybe user support but little developer support, I'll still help as I can but remember...I never heard of it. Don't mean much, just something.