"The first thing that many newcomers to Linux comment upon is how similar it is to Windows. However, it wasn't always like that; the resemblance is only skin deep and distributions such as Fedora Red Hat (the subject of this weeks Bootcamp) are a fairly recent effort to make Linux more user-friendly.
"Behind the scenes Linux can still be an awkward customer but that needn't concern the average user who simply wants to browse the internet, send and receive emails, create documents, view images and the thousand and one other things we expect of multimedia PCs these days..."
