What OS should I try?

Egon

Egon

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I found an old harddrive with no OS and I thought it would be nice to try something other then Windows. What do you guys recommend? I've been thinking about ubuntu.
 
never heard of dream linux. yeh ubuntu is a good choice, you could try freespire, I like that. It looks like windows...but its better.
 
Besides ubuntu there are a good number of other small distros like Zenwalk, Knppix, Darnsmall, Puppy Linux, etc. that won't use much drive space if that is a small capcity drive like a 2, 3, 4, 6gb size drive. FreeDos, Solaris, OSX are a few orher types. The usual advice seen is to try a few live for cd versions of various distros in order to determine which is the most suitable for you. KDE or Gnome desktop is another consideration to add to that. Grub or Lilo boot loader.

Linux is open source and therefore sees various releases for each version. You can run some distro through a virtual machine in Windows to see which one you will go with. Some newer releases can now see MS types of programs/games run on them.
 
The one thing about live distros ia that you can rescue files even off of drives with MS type partitions while booting from a live for cd distro. There's been a few articles seen on Knoppix while other distros can be used as well.

Some like Gentoo, Mephis, Mandriva and ubuntu live can alos save the day at times in that catagory. The live distros usually see QParted or GParted included for partitioning as well.
 
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