I've been using linux off and on for just under 13 years now, starting with SLS (a distro that no longer exists) then slackware and just about every other distro sinse at one time or another. Finally, I settled on using Centos and like it maily for it's stability and ease of maintenance in general.
I was exposed to linux many years ago thru my husband but didn't start LEARNING linux on my own back last July/August when I started putting my own server together. I even have a copy of that experince still avaliable as a *mini-tutorial* on putting together a CentOS server. Edited, of course to protect the guilty. Liz