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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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Sounds familiar. I thought installing Slackware 12 was just going to be a little side project; a challenge to myself to see if I could learn more about unix. 10 years later and Linux is both my hobby and my career :-)
Several of the distros discussed in this article were either paid for, in a computer store (the ones listed without a download link were installed from CD ROMs during the writing of this article), or had subscriptions of some kind available; Mandrake offered paid support, Slackware continues to offer subscriptions (I know; I'm a paid subscriber), and of course Red Hat still offers subscriptions via RHN.
I never tried Xandros; the one computer I owned that shipped with Xandros on it, the legendary eeePC, got Mandriva "Mini Me" installed onto it.