xxkbxx Posted June 4, 2006 Report Share Posted June 4, 2006 Okay, school's ending which means I have a little free time (outside of three jobs, practice, and such) and I'm going to mess around with Linux. Just a Live CD for now - no immediate plans on installing to my hard drive for permament use.So, which distro would be easy enough to pick up and run with, while still being highly functional. I have a AMD X2 processor setup (if that makes any difference on hardware setups) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted June 4, 2006 Report Share Posted June 4, 2006 To truely enjoy linux, you should instlal it to your harddrive. Running it from a cd kind of sucks. I think you can spare 5gbs :-) To answer your question, knoppix is nice. I even think their is a dvd version. this would contain just about any program you might use. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitest Posted June 4, 2006 Report Share Posted June 4, 2006 If you just want a live Linux CD here are a couple you can try out. UbuntuKnoppixEdit: Added later: I heartily agree with shanenin. Running Linux from your CD ROM drive really blows, but, it is a good way to try out Linux without messing up your windows partition. Running Linux from your HD is the best way to experience Linux. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Carnevil Posted June 4, 2006 Report Share Posted June 4, 2006 I'll also have to say that running it from a CD won't really give you the full experience. The LIveCds are a good way to test your hardware to see if everything will run. I say try a livecd to test your hardware, play with it for a few then download and install Ubuntu or Kubuntu. If you also want to try another type of *nix, try PC-BSD. http://www.pcbsd.org/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted June 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2006 My dillema is that I was stuck with the GRUB bootloader even after I deleted UBUNTU from my hard drive last time (it wouldn't run, it turned the screen into static) and ran fixMBR (which F'ed up my Windows boot record so I had to repair windows. Can somebody recommend a GOOD bootloader that can easily be removed in the event of catastrophe.So, I will install Linux to a spare partition - a 15GB FAT32 - let me know which distro has a good bootloader that won't horribly screw up my windows stuff! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted June 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2006 Update - I'm looking at downloading Fedora Core because of the extensive write up instructions from the folks at red hat and because it supports AMD 64 architecture Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Carnevil Posted June 4, 2006 Report Share Posted June 4, 2006 All linux distros support AMD64, Fedora is a good choice. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitest Posted June 4, 2006 Report Share Posted June 4, 2006 Yes, Fedora Core 5 is a good choice; I've run FC4 and it was a very solid distro. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted June 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2006 (edited) Having a small problem. I try to download the DVD ISO and this keeps happening (with several different mirrors) Notice the percentage is NegativeThis is after 2 hours or so of downloading Edited June 4, 2006 by xxkbxx Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Carnevil Posted June 5, 2006 Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 Having a small problem. I try to download the DVD ISO and this keeps happening (with several different mirrors) Notice the percentage is NegativeThis is after 2 hours or so of downloadingI'd try bittorrent. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/bordeaux-...-x86_64.torrent Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted June 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 what do i do with it (sorry new to torrent) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted June 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 Nevermind, I just downloaded BitTorrent Dur, how else would you open a torrent file (and I'm supposed to be smart with computers!) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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