On Monday 07 August 2006 21:04, Alan wrote: > Greetings, > I am interested in learning something about Linux and to that extent I > have a couple of Live CD's sent to me by a friend in the States, one > being Ubuntu 5.10 and the other has Knoppix 3.8, Neither of these is the latest of their brands, but either should work. For fun just pop the Knoppix 3.8 one in the CD drive and re-boot your machine, and have fun. You can explore without any fear of altering your hard-drive in any way. Knoppix is what is known as a LiveCD.
> I also have coming > Kubuntu, We have a number of these. > Simple Mepis, Many members swear by this one. > Melenix and a bit later Fedora Core. > Now being a real dummy at this time these names do not mean much to me, > but I am looking forward to playing with them. > My computer is an AMD Sempron 1.6Ghz 480Mb Ram and 80 Gb HDD of which I > have currently about 60Gb free, and using Windows XP Home. That should be perfect for Linux. > I believe that for some programs that when doing a full installation, it > will partition the HDD before it installs Correct > (it is currently not > partitioned), correct???? Not quite. For WinXp the dist is partitioned as one partition. > Are there places in Chch that you can get disks from for installing?? Many, Dick Smith etc. Also list members have many different Linux CDs. The normal arrangement is for you to provide a replacement disk. > I believe you can download from the internet some different programs but > think that most will be a bit too large for a 56k dial up which I use. For the initial update after installation you are correct, but for most programs a dial-up will be fine. Remember that we all existed on 56k dial up for many years, until the Telcos corrupted us with their idea of 'Broadband'. Please be aware that WinModems can sometimes be a bit of a trial to get going properly under Linux. Do you know what make and model you have? > I am assuming that these above mentioined programs are all different > versions of Linux, is that right??? Yes. The programs inside are the same, it's the installation and update methods that differ. > I would appreciate any suggestions or info that anyone might like to > offer..... just dont make it too technical at this stage please. Just put "Linux newbie" into Google and see what comes up. -- CS
