I'm reading right now an excerpt of an upcoming book, and enjoying it a bunch: http://www.unixreview.com/articles/books/book24/JoyofLinux_Ch04.pdf emacs/vi, KDE/GNOME, C/C++ . . . The chapter is freely available for downloading. <http://www.unixreview.com/articles/books/book24/book_preview24.htm> Walter