Tess wrote: > Ok in about Feb next year I am getting a new computer. So this old dunger > that I am on now will officially become the "guinea pig". > I would like to install Linux on to this one just for trial purposes first. > So what will I need?? Or am I OK?? > Help?? Please.
To try out linux get a copy of the Knoppix distribution. Down load it from one of the links at http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html Burn a cd as a bit-for-bit copy of the file. Or, ask me nicely, i.e. front up with $10, and I'll cut / burn you a copy. Shove the CD in the slot, boot, and have a look around. Knoppix runs entirely off the CD and does very clever things to save RAM and CDROM disk space. Therefore it is rather slow compared to a Linux properly installed on the hard disk. I have tried it out on a 400MHz Pentium II machine with 128 Megs of RAM and it performed quite acceptably, but I wouldn't try to make it go on a really old heap of a machine such as a Pentium I 90MHz especially if the CDROM has not been up graded. -- Christopher Sawtell
