I'm not sure how to word the question, so here goes:

Windows is an event-driven operating system (as in it waits for the user to do something before reacting).
Is Linux event-driven like Windows is?

I have heard the term 'Event-Driven' used in my programming courses. I understood its significance as 'waiting for the user to interact with the application'. In this sense, I would assume all operating systems are event-driven because they are not automated to do one specific task (unless chosen to do so).

Awesome

I would hate for this to turn into a distribution war but it's just a simple question. Which Linux distributions are/have you used Arremis? Which do you prefer?

I've tried many different ones, and the one I'm most comfortable with is Ubuntu. I find it's more widely used for game emulators than any other distribution (the server files I've seen always have an Ubuntu setup), and I don't do OS emulations (more trouble than its worth than having a rock-solid OS running). Currently, I'm not running any Linux at the moment (I had to give up my spare box to my daughter so my wife could have her laptop back), but I might get a newer box instead of running the old 1.8 Gig CPU and IDE hard drives

Ubuntu is usually the 'entry-leve' distribution most people use. Give it some power, a little more than 1.8 Ghz and an IDE drive and you could do some beautiful things.