Look Wardog, you dont want to be a "Cracker" like you said that you do. It is pointless and retarded to go and try to break into other peoples stuff that you don't belong in the first place. You can mess up a lot of peoples hard work to whatever it is that your trying to break through. Now what some people do is they actually break into some high security web sites and then tell the person who has the website how to fix whatever it was that allowed them to get into it. Now if you want to do that then thats great but otherwise you need to stop asking how to be a "Cracker" before you get flamed so bad that you wont know what hit you, and also don't post the same thing on more than one forum, your just making MsMittens or whoever it is moderating the forum to have to delete it. If you really have an intrest in computers then you should go ahead and learn C++, Java, Perl, Python, Unix, VisualC++, ect. There are soooo many languages out there for you to learn, but you shouldn't use them for hacking into other peoples stuff. You can get into serious trouble for doing that. If you want to learn these languages then you should go to google and search for it or you can look at the vast amount of post's on this site that talk all about the languages (Go to the tutorials section!!!!). And if you want to know what kind of linux to get then go to the reveiw's section and look at what people have to say or just try a bunch of different ones. Thats all I have to say about this matter.