Taking the Plunge

LinuxForums has published yet another review of the options for Windows refugees. Highlights include a comparison table featuring minimum and recommended system requirements for four GNU/Linux distributions plus two proprietary operating systems (I nearly choked on my muesli reading the stats for Vista), and a pleasing absence of the misleading generalisations, ignorance, and FUD-repeated-as-fact that one often finds in these sorts of articles. Although only four distros are compared, each seems to have been chosen as being representative of a particular category, so the newbie still gets a good idea of the breadth of what's available.