Hey guyz..
did alot of researching… and i decided to get linux..
but i’m a new-bee… and have no idea whwere to start.. but from what i read..
i think the most suitable one for me would be Suse 9.2 or 9.3
can some1 direct me in the right direction to d/l the iso for it and how to install it dual boot with win xp pro
thanks in advance
capt
Re: I wana go linux…
I say go with debian sarge. It will be a deep end for newbies but you’ll enjoy the ride. Give me some of your system specs as sarge might need some tweaking. Here is a short walkthrough tutorial
I prefer making my own partition (partition magic) since i dont trust the sarge installer :p, but after that its pretty straight forward. GL
Re: I wana go linux…
Depends on how much time and effort you are hoping to put into this project. If its just to get a PC up and running you can just download Fedora (red hat) and run the installer (here is the download and installation help site: http://fedora.redhat.com/download/).
If you would really like to spend time and learn it then get Gentoo.
These are pretty much the 2 extremes. There’s about 2 million other distros in the middle, including live-cd distros that can be run from a bootable CD and you don’t even have to install anything. So take your pick.
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Recently I downloaded SuSe 9.1 Pro and Linspire 5 ... both of them are commercial versions ... yet to try them out ..... read good reviews about SuSe so lets see ..
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I also would say go with Debian
Suse is very Security oriented. it might be hard to manage.
as for the iso’s … have you tried http://linuxiso.org/ ???
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Go with what u think is best!
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Gentoo is very fast and well documentated. But it's doing everything from the bottom up and removing the crap you dont need so it's not bloated like mandrake and other big distros. It's not easy to install you have to read loads of documentation. the good thing is gentoo has very good documentation one of the reasons for it's sucess as the fastest growing distro
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Since you are doing it for hobby and I am quite sure you will be quite bored with it very fast (everybody does - if you are not used to it).
Anyway, download VMWARE software. If you can't find it, let me know. Its a VIRTUAL MACHINE. You can load any OS with that and your computer windows will not have anything different. Once you run VMWARE you will your computer boot up within that VMWARE and then you can format / install / delete whatever you want and it will not effect your windows.
Its like having a second machine within your machine. If you make VMWARE full screen - no one will be able to tell the difference if its real or within windows. Its basically an emulator for your computer. You can have your MSN running, searching commands in Internet Explorer and running commands in Linux (through VMWARE).
You do need powerful machine (>1.5Ghz or better with 512RAM should be good). VMWare slows down your machine a lot when you are running it.
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Also go with RedHat Linux. Why? Because there is more documentation available for that and its easy to read and understand for newbies. Its also much more user friendly than other distz.
Hope this helps.
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Prince,
thanks for all the info... where can i get Linux and does it support all the hardware?
I am currently testing Suse (live) directly off of the dvd... and it seems to support everything so far... but i'm a bit confused about the software? will windows software still work on linux? if not.. who is linux really for?
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baba,
kuch ghalat keh dia kya?
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I would suggest to try out Linspire befor you turn 100% towards Linux. The OS costs like $50 and if you are not able to afford that, let me know, I have a legal version that I have never used and you can have it, including my online account at Linspire website.
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GenSec, so which did u go with? Or did you drop the idea?
The smack earlier was for your question about Windows software running on Linux. They are 2 totally separate operating systems (OS) and applications are not compatible. There are, however, other versions of the same applications by the same or different vendors (e.g. MS office vs Star Office) that you can use to do the same tasks.
Linux is for anyone who'd like to use it. You can pretty much do almost all the stuff that you can do on Windows, for a much lower cost. But as it is unknown to most so its considered a little hard to learn. But there are enough resources out there on the 'net so if you really want to get your feet go for it.
PS: Sorry for the smack, i was not in the right mood that day.