Hi Kristian!
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You wrote:
> I am interested in purchasing a Dell Workstation desktop 360n. The
> computer comes with FreeDOS. I would like to use Linux as an operating
> system, specifically the Xandros v.2.
Well, yes! Of course. Linux runs on almost anything where you can
installe Windows. However, some of the "more strange" things like
certain USB devices and winmodems and soundcards MIGHT not yet have
drivers for Linux. For example installing a driver for the WLAN of
Centrino notebooks is quite complicated in Linux.
If you would like to try Linux, I recommend that you download Knoppix:
Knoppix is a CD-ROM (or DVD) full of Linux which runs without installation.
Just boot from the CD-ROM, all hardware will be autodetected. Of course
it will run SLOW, especially if you have < 256 MB of RAM, because it only
uses the CD-ROM instead of the faster harddisk. A NORMAL Linux which you
install on harddisk will run fine on for example 128 MB RAM and a few
hundred MHz (e.g. 0.5 GHz) processor speed already,
even with almost all bells and whistles turned on.
http://www.xandros.com/about/faq.html
Xandros is the successor of Corel Linux, therefore it contains WordPerfect.
I think http://www.OpenOffice.org/ is an even more powerful Office suite,
and it is free!
So you might want to try OTHER Linux versions as well:
Mandrake (made in France) - easy to install but not so well known
SuSE (made in Germany) - very easy to install but you cannot download
CD-ROM images (still it is legal to copy it from somebody else if you
know another user of it)
Debian - not really easy to install but 100% community and free.
Knoppix - see above, not meant to be installed but meant to be used from CD.
Fedora - a community version of RedHat
RedHat - "the" best known Linux version in US, more for "work" than for "at
home" if you ask me
Gentoo - not for the beginner - compiles everything from source during install
if you want, which is very slow but optimizes everything to run as fast as
possible on exactly your hardware later.
FreeBSD - not Linux but very similar: Both BSD (including Mac OS X!) and Linux
are Un*x type operating systems.
...
To download ISO files (depending on which version it is, they will be kind of
"demo" only): http://www.linuxiso.org/
SuSE for example, if you got the full version (5 CD-ROMs or 1 DVD, I think)
will use about 2-3 GB on disk if you install almost everything (it already
includes OpenOffice.org). The other Linuxes are similar or smaller in size.
The rest is free for your files or to install other operating systems.
I myself have experience with installing SuSE, Mandrake and Debian and
with using RedHat: Once installed, all have a nice graphical user interface,
so "if you can click that button, you can use it". SuSE and Mandrake and
maybe others are easy to install BY NOW, too, because they can detect most
hardware during installation.
FreeDOS is just a DOS, so most of it works in text mode. If you can work with
MS DOS, you should understand how to use FreeDOS. Let us know if you have
further questions about FreeDOS!
If you have further questions about Linux, please mail me directly off-list,
as this is not a Linux list :-).
Eric.
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