----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Rose" <s9...@penguinmail.com>
To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:21 AM Subject: Re: CS>Re: Linux
There may be an easier way to get into Linux for you. The Linux distribution that has the most momentum right now is Ubuntu. This is because Mark Shuttleworth, a gentleman that made his money in the internet boom, started a company to take Debian Linux and refine it and support it. It's still free, but you can buy support if you need it. This support is mostly for business, but the Ubuntu forums are quite active and you can find answers for issues relatively easily. Ubuntu releases every six months (unlike Debian) and stays much more up to date without running the bleeding edge version. A lot of effort is put to making the install process simple. Also, you can boot the install cd and try it out without installing it. Go to: http://www.ubuntu.com/ and check it out. You'll probably want to start by downloading the image of the install cd here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download You'll need to burn this to a cd, then boot from that cd to check it out and/or install it. I would start with a spare pc. That would let you run it until you get used to it. There's a learning curve with these things just everything. :-) I would suggest at least a one gigahertz machine with 512 MB of memory. It's possible to get along with less of a machine, but it will be more painful. I've run free operating systems for many years and Ubuntu for the last few. I'm still running some Windows, but eventually I expect to be mostly Ubuntu. Steve
Thanks Steve. I have started a Linux folder to collect information. The cd is a good idea. Faith g.
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