Hi,<br><br>On the Linux part, before you get a place to work with Linux in a production system:<br><br><ul><li>Install Vmware player or Virtualbox</li><li>Download a Vmware Linux appliance from here <a href="http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/">http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/</a>, like this one <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/thoughtpolicevm/debian-500-i386-netinst.zip">http://downloads.sourceforge.net/thoughtpolicevm/debian-500-i386-netinst.zip</a> for instance, or this one <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/thoughtpolicevm/fedora-13-i686.zip">http://downloads.sourceforge.net/thoughtpolicevm/fedora-13-i686.zip</a> which has more packages preinstalled; any really. It should work with Virtualbox too.<br>
</li><li>After getting it running, go here <a href="http://tldp.org/">http://tldp.org/</a> and start with the guides, like this one for instance <a href="http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html">http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html</a> ; then the HOW-TOs like that, like that</li>
</ul>By the time you get to use it in production, it wont be too unfamiliar to you, to say the least.<br><br>