just downloaded and installed cygwin. i am so friggen pleased, duel boots are such a pain in the arrse! now i can start a unix shell while running my win2k box. just like starting a DOS shell. also works on 9x, xp, everything but ce. has gcc and all libs.

for those who would like to run nix but would rather not have the trouble that usually goes with it, or just want to try it out:

www.cygwin.com