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What I really want to do is play around enough with Linux to the point where I feel slightly comfortable with it. I just want to do this so I can say I have experience using it coming out of college. And I've always been really interested in it :D

 

But anyway, which version do you think I should go with? There are too many for me to narrow down. And I'm guessing for my situation it would be best to go with one of those live CD's that you can run the whole OS off of the CD/DVD itself. I've looked into Knoppix, but still don't really have a clue. Can you guys give me some suggestions and also where to download these?

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Its your lucky day! I dont know much about linux but right now a version called linspire wich usually costs money is giving away their program for a couple of days. It is probably the most user friendly, so I would try that and see if you can get the hang of it. Then you can get into the more hardcore geek versions.

 

Here is a link to the linspire site:

http://www.linspire.com/

 

Here is where to get the offer for the free download:

http://info.linspire.com/freespire/index.html

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Signed up for my free copy, only trouble is there are almost 500 other people already lining up to download it, so I will have to wait a while to actually get it.

I always wanted to try a totally different operating system.

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Signed up for my free copy, only trouble is there are almost 500 other people already lining up to download it, so I will have to wait a while to actually get it.

I always wanted to try a totally different operating system.

 

Get Azureus and use the bittorent link and you can get it right away.

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just dont get caught. p2p is considered illegal because there are a lot of pirated files going between users

 

btw:im not saying Azureus is illegal. the uses it's used for is. however there are some cases where p2p is used for saving bandwidth :)

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just dont get caught. p2p is considered illegal because there are a lot of pirated files going between users

 

btw:im not saying Azureus is illegal. the uses it's used for is. however there are some cases where p2p is used for saving bandwidth :)

 

If your downloading legal files than bit torrent is perfectly legal. I use it to download these programs:

http://revision3.com/systm/

 

Now if your downloading music or movies than you will get in trouble.

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you use DAEMON Tools or some other software that is capable of "burning disc images" to a CD

 

i did this to my slackware yesterday and it works like a charm. i used Nero Express though ;)

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rofl. nono you're missing my point. if you burned the .iso file to a CD, then the CD would only have the .iso file

 

if you burned the disc image to a CD with the .iso, then it would have the files that were contained in the ISO such as the Linux kernel, the K Desktop Enviroment, and all the other junk

 

edit:or if he already knew that and wanted to use Linux with a CD, then just put in the CD, restart and you're done :)

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What I really want to do is play around enough with Linux to the point where I feel slightly comfortable with it.  I just want to do this so I can say I have experience using it coming out of college.  And I've always been really interested in it  :D

 

But anyway, which version do you think I should go with?  There are too many for me to narrow down.  And I'm guessing for my situation it would be best to go with one of those live CD's that you can run the whole OS off of the CD/DVD itself.  I've looked into Knoppix, but still don't really have a clue.  Can you guys give me some suggestions and also where to download these?

 

 

 

Have a link for the torrent? Their site is so clogged right now it's insane.

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Got it easy earlier using the torrent with Azureus that rridgely recommended, took 65 minutes to download at work, would of been quicker if I had played with the settings in Azureus a bit sooner.

Glad I didn't download it at home, would of taken about 4 hours.

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I currently have Knoppix installed on a virtual machine but i don't think i will keep it just for the simply fact that my games don't work on it, hardware drivers for printers, scanner etc are more or less non existent. Also i like my windows application i have and most are not available on Linux. I also do not want to run 2 OS but i still have Knoppix so i will carry on using it for some time and maybe i will maybe i wont.

 

You should try here for some Linux Operating systems.

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No install distro :

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html ( dvd or cd version ) you don't need to install it , it's a live distro ! great , lot of apps and test environment , you can use it as a OS rescue

 

Best ( imho ) install and user friendly :

Suse professional 9.3 :rolleyes:

 

For your start in linux world you can try mandriva too ( ex mandrake ) , pnp , user oriented ... for newbie

http://www.mandriva.com/

 

if you ask to a "pure GNU | HURD " user about which distro use :

www.debian.org

 

 

Lot of distro reviews :

http://distrowatch.com/

 

If you want to test linux as a firewall :

www.ipcop.org

www.smoothwall.org

( very good !!!! )

 

 

Make a backup of your mbr before start everything :

http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/mbrtool.htm

 

Last but not least make a safe backup of your HD personal file , you know here in italy we say " l'amore ? cieco ma la sfiga ci vede benissimo" , you can translate it as love is blindness but unluck see very good .

 

Shout if you need help !!!!!

:)

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