I spent a while with Helix today.
Very, very cool.
I've always been interested in forensics, and computers, so why not computer forensics? I'm downloading it as I type. I got to see some of what it can do when it's acting as the OS as well as what it can do when used on an already running OS.
Learning is fun, and learning secret things is even more fun.
While Helix is cool, I and my instructor don't think it's the best choice to be using as a regular OS for a home user. His recomendations were if you want to ease away from the Microsoft apron strings, try Ubuntu, but if you want to use the best linux that you can get without compiling a version yourself, to try Red Hat/fedora/CentOS.
