Help! Linux Newiee Needs Your Advice!!!

[mgsampson]

HI FOLKS!

I AM IN NEED OF YOUR HELP FOLKS AS I AM THINKING OF MOVING TO LINUX AS I HAVE HEARD SUCH GREAT THINGS ABOUT IT!

BEING NEW TO THIS I WOULD BE PEASED TO PICK YOUR BRAINS ON A FEW QUESTIONS I HAVE?

1. WHAT VERSION OF LINUX DO YOU RECOM I SHOULD INSTALL AS I AM NEW TO THIS?
I ALREADY HAVE WINDOWS XP PRO AND WISH TO KEEP IT INSTALLED.

2. IF I CAN PARTITION MY HARD DISK TO USE BOTH WINDOWS XP PRO WHICH I HAVE ON MY HARD DISK AT THE MOMENT AND MY FUTURE LINUX OS? IF SO HOW DO I DO IT OR ANY WEBSITE WITH INFO?

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP PEOPLE!

MIKE

:confused:

[lahook]

i'd recomend Mandrake, Redhat, or Suse.
anyone of them should partition your harddrive for dual-boot with windows.

[bsm2001]

I would recomend Mandrake that is the distro I use.
It has a great install and will partition your hd without
destroying your xp. just make sure you defrag before
you start the install. also has great hardware detecttion.

[sharth]

I would recommend reading up on net-etiquite...

[Dun'kalis]

See sig.

[BigFatJoe]

1. Who the hell are you screaming at?
2. listen to Sharth
3. If you've "heard so much great things about linux" maybe you should go back to the source and figure out if linux is for you. In answering this question, you will (with some research) find the distro for you. ie. find a distro that does what you need/want to do with linux.
4. Dun'kalis: that's a great link. Moving to bookmarks.
5. Sorry to be rough on you, mgsamson, but if you do a simple search of this forum alone you will find about a 1000 people that have asked the same EXACT questions as you, and have gotten very good responses. As teachers have often told you in school, "Be a good boy: do your homework!"

[Rickdog]

Since they are almost all basically free, do like I do, try them all!

[sharth]

Originally posted by Rickdog
Since they are almost all basically free, do like I do, try them all! not all are free. lindows, xandros, and new versions of libranet are not. one of the major distros does not put out isos for the newest version, but I cannot remember which off hand.

But please read up on net-etiquete before you post again mgsampson...

[Rickdog]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by sharth
[B]not all are free. lindows, xandros, and new versions of libranet are not. one of the major distros does not put out isos for the newest version, but I cannot remember which off hand.

I said "almost", the major brands like RH, MDK,Suse. etc can be downloaded freely. Go here to see a whole bunch of free distros http://www.linuxiso.org/

[sharth]

didn't see the almost :) my apologies.

[Taishi]

Mandrake -Gnome Window Manager- Get 9.0 it has alot alot alot alot of fixes :D