On Monday 28 February 2005 13:01, divakar gupta wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I am currently using Windows XP(Professional) and want Linux as another OS,
> alongwith Windows on my system. I have following queries:
>
> 1) I have Pentium 4,3.00 HT, Processor with 915GV Intel motherboard. Hard
> disk is 80 GB Serial ATA(Seagate). RAM is 400FSB, 512MB. Can Linux be
> loaded on SATA hard disk?
Yes, you can. If you don't have any free partition, you can do the following:
1) Defragment your hdd
2) Use a partition program like partitionmagic, fips, parted etc. to resize
the partition
3) Create partitions for linux.
Mandrake has the partition resizing program in its installer itself, IIRC.
> 2) From where in New Delhi, India can I get Linux for free/at reasonable
> rates?
You can get them from one of the many resources. Ask at the ilugd-cd list.
> 3) Which is the latest version of linux introduced?
Depends. 2.6.10 probably.
> 4) Which linux is best suited for me?(Red Hat/Mandriek)
> i need linux for just trying it out and basic purposes initially, and later
> for advanced applications and utilities.
I would suggest you go for SUSE, mandrake or OpenLX. SUSE because it has this
thing called YaST which will never force you to go to a terminal to perform
even the complex tasks. Mandrake because if you dont want closed source or
"non-free" SUSE. OpenLX because it is indian and has many added stuff over FC.
It contains CollabCAD, Kalculate, Flash player, Sun's Java, bootsplash etc.
Normally, you wouldn't find these in any other distros. Also, it is backed by
the company which created Kalculate, the accounting package for linux.
> Waiting for your response...
>
> Divakar Gupta
> New Delhi
> India
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