Easy Linux/Knoppix and win-xp co existence

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Curious about other popular OS, but be afraid of mess.
Look here.

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17024

From the next screen top download (700MB) FREE and burn a Knoppix live CD,
and from this “short manual†for easy Linux/Knoppix and winxp co-existence go
“from zero to Linux in 5 minutesâ€:

Good luck
Alex
 
A very handy tool for working on corrupt systems as well. For the curious,
this is a great way to see what Linux is all about. Been using it for
several years, though I think BartPE is coming on strong.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
I am interested in trying Linux. It seems Linux OS comes in several forms,
such as Red hat, mandrax, Debian etc and also can be directly downloaded
from the Net. I have been told that customised version is easier than the
free direct download version. Kindly advice which will the best and easy way
for a newbie to learn Linux.
 
If you are serious give the two articles a read. They
will start you at the beginning, where the customized
versions will start you 1/2 to 3/4 of the way without
understanding anything. Both articles are verbose.

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9271
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2016

newbie wrote:
| I am interested in trying Linux. It seems Linux OS comes in several
| forms, such as Red hat, mandrax, Debian etc and also can be directly
| downloaded from the Net. I have been told that customised version is
| easier than the free direct download version. Kindly advice which
| will the best and easy way for a newbie to learn Linux.
|
|
|
| || A very handy tool for working on corrupt systems as well. For the
|| curious, this is a great way to see what Linux is all about. Been
|| using it for several years, though I think BartPE is coming on
|| strong.

|| |||
||| Curious about other popular OS, but be afraid of mess.
||| Look here.
|||
||| http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17024
|||
||| From the next screen top download (700MB) FREE and burn a Knoppix
||| live CD, and from this â?oshort manualâ? for easy Linux/Knoppix
||| and winxp co-existence go
||| â?ofrom zero to Linux in 5 minutesâ?:
|||
||| Good luck
||| Alex
 
Hi,

For a newbie, Mandrake is the easiest to learn (at least to me it is). Very
intuitive and easy to configure. There's no point to purchasing disks, just
download and make your own.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Salut/Hi Rick "Nutcase" Rogers,

le/on Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:45:11 -0500, tu disais/you said:-
Hi,

For a newbie, Mandrake is the easiest to learn (at least to me it is). Very
intuitive and easy to configure. There's no point to purchasing disks, just
download and make your own.
Click to expand...

As long as you're on broadband. And bloody reliable broadband too. Imagine
getting 90% of the way of d/l an ISO image and losing the lot. I d/l at
about 4kb/sec. with luck. so 700,000 kb (roughly) is abt 3000 minutes or 50
hours.

Yeah. I think I'd prefer to buy the CD.
 
Download managers will cure that problem by allowing you to pick up where
you left off. I use the registered version of getright, but there are plenty
of other ones that work equally well.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Salut/Hi Rick,

le/on Fri, 4 Mar 2005 20:16:19 -0500, tu disais/you said:-
Download managers will cure that problem by allowing you to pick up where
you left off. I use the registered version of getright, but there are plenty
of other ones that work equally well.
Click to expand...

True, but nevertheless, it's as easy to buy a download version on ebay for a
couple of dollars and having regard to the cost of subs and download time,
probably cheaper!

Have a look. Actually, I'm not convinced that suggesting to someone just to
get hold of the OS is a good way to introduce them to Linux. Imagine XP sent
with absolutely NO support software. NO browser, no email client, no text
processor, nothing. Well the download distro of Mandrake unless I'm
mistaken, contains just that. At least the cheapo home use distro that you
can buy for something derisory like $25 or $30 gives you a rather more
complete suite of sox than XP at (how much is XP full version?)

And no, I don't run Linux, I run XP. And for me, it's the first version of
Windows that competes with Linux _as an operating system_. I used to use
windows, not for the OS, but for the quality of the apps that ran under it.
Now.... XP is good.

And I'm sorry, I've allowed myself to be tempted into a thread that's about
99% off topic!
 
Hi Ian,

The downloadable Mandrake Linux is fully loaded with email client, an suite
of productivity applications, web browser, a handful of simple games, and
pretty much anything anyone might need to get started. Software support in
Linux is the same whether you download it or pay for disks.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Ian Hoare wrote:
| Salut/Hi Rick "Nutcase" Rogers,
|
| le/on Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:45:11 -0500, tu disais/you said:-
|
|| Hi,
||
|| For a newbie, Mandrake is the easiest to learn (at least to me it
|| is). Very intuitive and easy to configure. There's no point to
|| purchasing disks, just download and make your own.
|
| As long as you're on broadband. And bloody reliable broadband too.
| Imagine getting 90% of the way of d/l an ISO image and losing the
| lot. I d/l at about 4kb/sec. with luck. so 700,000 kb (roughly) is
| abt 3000 minutes or 50 hours.
|
| Yeah. I think I'd prefer to buy the CD.

This is just my opinion. I don't think that Linux can be kept up to
date with a dialup. I have a bareboned Debian install using KDE,
Mozilla, Pan, Open Office and GnuCash. This updates really often.
I only use main and contrib no non-free.
 
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