How do I put Linux on my computer?
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I have a windows computer and I am wanting to put Linux on it. It could be the only OS on the computer it doesn’t matter to me. I just need to know how and where to start. Could someone please tell me the step by step solution for this problem. THANKS!
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First you need to choose which Linux distro you want, some of them are
-Ubuntu (this includes Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and others)
-Red Hat Fedora Core # (# meaning what version you get, the higher the number, the newer it is)
-Linux XP (pretty much a version of Linux that looks like Windows XP)
-Gentoo (I haven’t ventured far into this, but it’s kind of like Ubuntu)
-SuSE (I almost tried it out once, I even had the ISO, but never got around to using it, SuSE is made by Novell, which makes server/client software for schools and businesses)
-FreeBSD (if you ever used Mac OS X, you have used a version of this, though they call it Darwin)
-Mandriva (haven’t really used it, so I can’t say much about it)
-Debian (haven’t really used it, so I can’t say much about it)
-Knoppix (usually used for it’s bootloader, it’s basically a usable slimmed down version of you typical Linux kernel, some companies use this for hard drive diagnostic software, bootable software like password resetters, or for a bootable OS emulator, like VMWare)
-DSL (Da*m Small Linux) (this is a very slimmed down version of Linux used for diagnostics and utilities, other than for it’s utility uses, it’s a pretty useful version of Linux, it can only run from a LiveCD or from a flash drive)
-Lindows (by Linspire) (it’s basically a version of Windows and Linux in one, and allows you to run both Linux and Windows programs on the same system, within the same operating system, without Wine or some emulator, though it is not free)
And there are a lot more popular, and non-popular distros out there
After you have chosen your distro you want to use, you can go to a torrent tracker or go to a website that hosts a download for the version of Linux you want and download the ISO
Once you have the ISO, use a program like Nero or Roxio to burn the ISO to a DVD (or CD) (burn the ISO as an image, do not burn the file to a data DVD/CD), if you have a Micro Center near youm they may have copies of Linux stamped on a CD for about a dollar or so if you don’t want to or can’t burn an ISO
After you have the ISO burned to a DVD or CD, boot from it, depending on what version of Linux you want, some will boot as a LiveCD where you have to run the installer program after booting from it, other versions will begin install after booting from it, install Linux by following the directions, the installation should be pretty straightforward, it has for every version of Linux I have installed
After you have installed Linux, depending on the way you have installed it, you should either boot directly into Linux, or you will boot into either GRUB or the Windows bootloader, depending on which one shows up, select your Linux distro from the multiboot list and hit enter, it should boot into Linux and it should be ready to use
Gen an install CD and follow the on-screen instructions.
Live CD linux.org
Linux is an accuired taste. Let me recomend you try a LIVE edition first. This means you run it from a CD or USB drive, and dont install it unless you want to at a later time.
Knoppix is a live distro you can get, just burn it, pop it in, and reboot.
If you like it, you may move to a hard drive install of UBUNTU linux. It is probably the most polished version I have seen, more resembling VISTA than the older windows 98 which most linux look like.
LINUX SUCKS
I wouldn’t bother with Linux. It doesn’t do anything that windows can’t do better. Unless you need it for programming or are a complete geek.
http://wubi-installer.org/
Just install, it will install it to a partition on your HD, then when you first boot it, you can choose to boot your default (XP, Vista) or the installed one.
Step by step:
Download a Linux Live CD image file. (Your choice of which of the more than 300 versions it is. I like Ubuntu.)
Burn it AS AN IMAGE, not as a file, to a CD (or DVD for a large version.)
Leave the CD in the drive and restart the computer. Follow the instructions – it’ll take a couple of minutes to boot up. (It won’t do anything to Windows unless you run the installation program once Linus is up and running from the CD.
Have fun.
the best linux version to start with in Ubuntu (ubuntu.com) which is similar to windows.
if you are using windows and want to switch to linux it will be hard and frustrating b/c everything works differently.
try installing Ubuntu, and once you got the hang of linux then move on to other versions of it
Hi, let me start by saying that any OS is better than windows. Some good versions of Linux are Ubuntu and Red Hat. Those you can download, burn to a CD, and install. There are also Linux distros that emulate Mac OSX so that would probably be the best choice. If you still want to run your windows or Mac programs on your shiny new Linux OS, look for a free downloadable app called Wine.
Best of luck scourging Windows from your system! From,
– Vistafailed(gomac)
Try a tutorial like http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-kubuntu-8.04-lts . That will tell you how to install Kubuntu 8.04, a distribution of GNU/Linux.