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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Nice! bonus points for the Linux/MS swap on campus!
I'm inclined to agree with you. I did these installs initially for laughs, but I ended up accidentally learning a lot about modern Linux. This, of course, would be harder to do with non-open source operating systems, unless you just happen to have all the install discs lying around (and some people do), but even then, some closed OS's restrict what hardware they can be installed on. But I guess that's why there are places like computer museums.
It's well worth doing, however, with your favourite open source OS. It's a lot of work, but a lot of fun,