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Article #1128Re: New to Linux
From: Graeme
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:52
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:52
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Thanks for all the replies. I have ordered a " live cd". .Should be here by middle of next week so looking forward to giving it a go from the cd drive; Again thanks very much for the advice "Graeme" <graeme52au@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:2GvOj.3160$ko5.2277@news-server.bigpond.net.au... >I want to try Linux on a desk top computer. At the moment it is running Xp >Home Edition. I am slightly confused as to which edition of Linux to chose >and how to install it. At the moment the computer I want to put Linux on >runs all my digital radio programs for amateur radio under XP. It only has >a 4 gig hard drive with a 160 meg of ram and performs rather well. I would >appreciate any advice from people that have already been there done that or >could give me direction as to what my next move should be. I have read >about putting Linux on first and then getting Windows installed to run >under Linux. > > Thanking you > > Graeme >
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X-Google-Thread: 102983,3a0ae416fff87874 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!pit-transit.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Graeme" <graeme52au@yahoo.com.au> Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux References: <2GvOj.3160$ko5.2277@news-server.bigpond.net.au> In-Reply-To: <2GvOj.3160$ko5.2277@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Subject: Re: New to Linux Lines: 20 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16480 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6000.16480 Message-ID: <ptZOj.3664$ko5.1939@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:52:21 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 121.223.48.209 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1208771541 121.223.48.209 (Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:52:21 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:52:21 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services