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Blues Brothers...........................great movie:-)

Yep, thanks, buddy! I'm recording it now as we speak, I'll be watching it later tonight. I'm a huge fan of 24, at some point I'll be buying the complete series on DVD. It is great to watch Jack blow stuff up!

All of our snow is melting right now. We had a light dusting the other day, an inch or two. It is very mild today. We had one week of below freezing weather. It is warmer than usual. Rain 39 °F 33 km/hr SE Relative Humidity 88 %

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LOL Good to see you, my friend!!!

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Heh-heh, funny stuff, man!

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Agreed. Those systems will easily run Linux. Have fun:-)

lucid...............heh-heh

Okay. Sounds good. The latest version of Kubuntu 6.10 has a good package manager called Adept. What system specs does your unit have? Amount of RAM? Processor speed? Size of hard drive? If your computer is at least a Plll with 256 MB RAM and a 10 GB HD you should be fine.

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Ubuntu is based on Gnome and Kubuntu is based on KDE. They are both very similar, easy to use, and set-up.

That may have been true a little while back but I hardly think it "requires" it nowadays. It does for the original poster as he's trying to install a tar.gz file. If he becomes more familiar with navigating around his hard drive from a shell prompt he can get more difficult things done. However, yes, you can accomplish most things these days in Linux without a lot of command line knowledge. I think Ubuntu or Mandriva would be a good choice as most things can be handled with a graphical interface. The install routine for Ubuntu 6.10 is very nice, just point and click, select next.

Another possibility would be to stick with what you know. You could upgrade your unit to Fedora Core 6. As I understand it the good people at Fedora have discontinued support for Fedora Core 4; they're not providing update support anymore. You could also try Mandriva. Mandriva One is a single install CD that is very easy to use. Mandriva is based on redhat/fedora so you'll be familiar with the rpm install routine. As I mentioned before you can check out my posted link up above on how to get these CDs or you can download them yourself. I have some useful links in my signature. "My Linux S

Further to iccaros's and jcl's excellent help. Using Linux and learning will require a bit of command line experience. Here is a good site that'll teach you about the command line: linuxcommand.org As jcl said Ubuntu is an excellent distro to start out with as the installation functions are handled for you. All you need is one CD to install Ubuntu. You can order one for free. See my pinned topic, getting Linux CDs at the top of this forum. Linux can be very frustrating in the beginning. I think it is worth the effort.

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Welcome, Ice Wolf! Marty is a friend of mine, a great guy! Very nice to meet you; I'm glad you decided to join our family:-)

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