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I want to learn Linux recently,is there anyone can help me?

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_simon_

First use Google (or Google Linux (http://www.google.com/linux) to read up on Linux and look at various screenshots to get a feel of it.

Then choose a distribution to try, Ubuntu is a good place to start and read up on that specific distro.

Ubuntu Forum - http://ubuntuforums.org/

Once you feel comfortable, download and install it and try it yourself.

The only only real way to learn is to use it.

dark_angel

i'm starting to learn linux. What i've done is get an old computer which i had sitting around and installed ubuntu 6.06 on it and just playing around on it. If i stuff it up i can just dump it. Then when i understand it enough and comfortable with it i will most likely install on my main computer.

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Case/Processor: SB61G2 X-PC Barebones AMD Athlon (tm) 64 Processor 3000+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz
Hard Drive/Memory:Seagate 120GB SATA-150/1GB RAM
Video Card/Sound Card:NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 (Microsoft Corporation)/NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio
Monitor: 17" CMV CT-712A LCD
Speakers/Headphones: Logitech R20 2.1
Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Logitech MX518
Operating System: Windows XP Professional

curtains

I used linux for a while .. lots of good and free programs on it ... but its problem(for me) was its incompatiablity ... i used it for round 6 months.. slowly fadded out, cause i had 2 change OS to play games .. etc... but if u dont play game's its pretty good. if u just wana play music or etc ... more stable than windows. so i deleted it ..

I know this doesnt help but just putting my 2cents in

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E6400 OC to 3.2ghz fsb 400 1:1 ratio
Albatron Gefroce 7900GTX 512mb ram
Aspacer 1gig ram ddr2 800
3 250gig hdd
LG 18x duel layer etc DVD writer.
20" CRT monitor
Hyena 500w PSU

_simon_

How successful this is really depends on the machine you use to try Linux on. I started out on a second pc I had but had endless problems, so decided to install on my main pc and it worked perfectly.

dark_angel

it is able to run 6.06 drapper drake on it. I've tried a few things and seems ot be handling it.

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Case/Processor: SB61G2 X-PC Barebones AMD Athlon (tm) 64 Processor 3000+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz
Hard Drive/Memory:Seagate 120GB SATA-150/1GB RAM
Video Card/Sound Card:NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 (Microsoft Corporation)/NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio
Monitor: 17" CMV CT-712A LCD
Speakers/Headphones: Logitech R20 2.1
Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Logitech MX518
Operating System: Windows XP Professional

PabloTeK

I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 to good effect on the following box:

eMachines 420
Intel Celeron 2.6GHz
512mb PC2700 Micron RAM
80GB WDC800 IDE HDD
nVidia GeForce FX5200 - Having issues with this, I'm using the integrated atm
A pair of unknown optical drives, but they are both burners.

I've tried installing the nVidia drivers via Synaptic Package Manager with little sucess, everytime I re-enable the card in the BIOS I get a couple of screens to do with X Sever and then it boots into the console mode. As soon as I switch to integrated again it's fine though.

P.S: Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) BETA is out, I'm downloading it now

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henryjsaunders

Use Ubuntu for begginers. search google for linux guide

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PabloTeK

Just installed Feisty Fawn and if you like the effects in Vista then Ubuntu now offers them, there are a few bugs but it looks good and I spent 5 minutes playing around with it. It ran well with the integrated graphics but still wouldn't work when it came to my 5200.

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Jonyboy

im running ubuntu on...

450mhz intel pentium 3
(no idea about the ram) around 200mb (i guess)
12gb hard drive

I had to use a alternate install cd though.