Linux..

[Shamrock]

What is the best Linux to use? I want the best looking and easiest to learn Linux. I am new to the whole Linux scene, but I have always wanted to try Linux out. Can you also tell me how to install Linux on a HDD that also has Windows, or you can link me to a site that tells a person how to install 'Nix.
I know OF Red Hat, Cedega, and SuSE. Like I said know OF, I know nothing about them. I just heard about them.


Thanks a lot guys. I appreciate your help.

 

[Naudian]

Cant help you, but Im interested in Linux also.
How do you pronounce "Linux"?
Lye-nux?
Or
Lin-ux?

 

[Homie]

I know some linux but freebsd is the best, but for my server though im using RedHat 9 Linux. UPDATE: You must find a website to download linux but linux redhat 9 i know is free. Linux can run in command prompt mode or gui that is like windows.

 

[lePobz]

If you just want to experiment with Linux, the best way is to just download Knoppix to a CD and run it from the CD (it acts as a boot CD so it doesnt touch your hard-drive, but it is a fully functional version of Linux with great hardware support).

If you like it, you can get mandrake or suse or something like.

Linux is correctly pronounced 'Lin-Uxx' by most people.

 

[v1p3r]

SuSe and Fedora (the non-comercial version of Redhat) are very easy to use, and install next to windows cleanly

Good luck

 

[furiousV]

http://www.linuxiso.org/index.php
get Fedore Core 3, it worked straight away. no sound problems, and internet was a breeze.
for the DVD iso file, you can get it off the bit torrent too

i always pronounce it 'lye-nux'
but some weird guy from my school calls it 'leh-nux', and he also pronounces router 'ra-ooter' when here im sure its 'rooter'

 

[Ti133700N]

I'd say the same as furiousV. I have Fedora Core 3 (Red Hat's brother) and it works like a charm. Easy to get, free, comes with alot of stuff (librairies, softwares).

I also agree on the 'rooter' pronounciation

 

[Shamrock]

I always pronounced router as 'rout-er'.

Thanks for the recommendations. I am going to try Fedora Core 3.

I will get back to you with the results.

 

[Asus]

Router is said how it looks. Routers route things so they are a Router.
I've always said lin-nux too. Dunno.

 

[furiousV]

here route is pronounced 'root' so by just adding an 'r' on the end, its pronounced 'rooter'

we should start a new thread in the appropriate section on pronounciation

 

[Shamrock]

Uhhh.. Where can I download Fedora Core 3?

The link you posted furiousV does not work.

 

[NetGuru42]

Orional pronunciation of Linux has been confirmed as "lye-nux", after Linux creater Linus Torvalds (as in Lye-nus=Lye-nux - he named it that way), however, I among millions of others all over the world prefer "lin-ux" since it is much smoother over the tongue and just sounds cooler

SuSe is without a doubt the easiest way to get into Linux, however, it lacks many of the major packages and flexibility that a good Linux distribution should have. That's where FC3 picks up the slack. Watch for FC4 this summer!!! :cheers:

 

[Shamrock]

Where can I download FDC3?

 

[gh0st]

Download fedora3: http://fedora.redhat.com/
You wont regret it.

I also say lin-ux, and row-ter.

 

[Shamrock]

Thanks a lot gh0st. I appreciate it.

There are 4 cds? Thats just crazy. I have to download them all. Oh well, its not like I need Lin-Ux right now.

 

[furiousV]

http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/ go here for torrents, DVD only im afraid, so use if u got access to a DVD burner, and got a DVD ROM in ur PC
heidelberg-x86_64-DVD.torrent is the 64bit one u will need for a normal installation

 

[Washuu]

Torvald says, Lean-ix

Search google for a recording of him saying it.