Questions we need to have quick answers to, on displayed Q&A placards:

-- What's different about Linux?  Why yet another OS?
-- Isn't Win98 and WinNT the impending standard for everyone?
-- Why does open-source software matter to non-programmers?
-- What's it good for?
-- What's it not good for?
-- How good is hardware support?  How beefy a machine is required?
   Where do I get drivers?
-- How do I install it?
-- Will it run my existing applications?  How do I read Word97 docs?
   Where's Quicken?
   (See CBB = Check Book Balancer at http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/cbb
   and X-accountant at http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~rclark/xacc.  Both read
   Quicken files.)
-- If it's "free", how do I get support?  Isn't is a problem that Linux
   lacks a corporate backer?
-- How can it be any good if it's free of charge?
-- How can it be any good if there aren't as many applications?  Why 
   aren't they on the shelves at Fry's?
-- How can it be any good if it's seldom mentioned in PC magazines?
-- How can it be any good if it doesn't do multi-threading?
   (It _does_ do multithreading.  This is a common bit of 
   Microsoft-originated FUD.)
-- How can it be any good if it's based on antique, user-hostile Unix?
   (Isn't Unix obsolete?)
-- Do I have to get rid of Windoze to run it?  How much space does it take?
-- Where do I get Linux?  Where at the show?
-- Where do I get books on Linux?  Which are recommended?