Hey Newbie.
if you want to try out Linux ther are one or foure distrubution you might start with, I'l sugest that you try and finde out if some of yours frinds are using Linux and use the same distrbition, as the will be abele to help you on the spot.
If nobody you know use Linux, you have to chouse your self. as I se it you have to chouse betwen:
www.RedHat.com, www.suse.com www.Caldera.com or www.debian.org
I use debian because that it is free and I can upgrade and install ekstra utilities directly from the web (you dont have to download it first) You might want to checkout www.linux.org where ther is a lot of info.
The sekond thing that I will rekoment is that you install linux an a dualboot system, as there is a limit of the amount of games avalierble, and it will also smuthe out the change to linux.
GodtLuck

bye the way what stands CS for ?

Mark
wait for mk III with a USB Host/slave
(USB->Ethernet)(USB->COM 1-8)(USB->You name it)