im already familiar with firefox (which is brill

but linux.. well tried dling some of the distros and..well.. suffice to say im not using getright+dialup ever again..
im not subscribed to the mag yet but as soon as i get the money i will be

anyway
a mate is getting me the parts... budget of £250.
putting together roughly, this system:
AMD 2400~3200 CPU,
512~1GB Ram
40~120gb hdd
either AGP 8x or PCI-E on the mobo.
so with a distro that runs quick on a pentium 350mhz will surely run mega fast here

anyway
im stuck on what distribution to use once its built up.
oh and after that im converting current pc to linux and making it a web server

anyway
OS.
Red hat-Fedora is on the list so far.. what alternatives to that is there?
note: im a student so £50 a week. and 90% of that will be used on the comp so free software is a must.
this has been triggered by how bad microsoft are.
KMFMS (german for, No mercy for Microsoft)