Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: New Member

Mint 8 is now out!

Roy

2009/11/30 loyal_barber <loyal_barber@yahoo.com>

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> see below
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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com <LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "rkzbos" <jackrossini@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hello: I am new to this group and glad to join.
> >
> > I've been learning UNIX from a book called UNIX for Dummies. I am able to
> practice it on a Unix server when I go online by using a program called
> Putty in a XP operating system.
> >
> > I understand that I could run Unix under a Linux operating system. What I
> want to do is change my XP operating system to a Linux operating system.
>
> Not exactly. Linux and Unix are pretty close to the same. Unix
> was invented at Bell Labs in the 70s as I remember. For the most
> part Unix has always been a "for pay" OS. There are many flavors
> such as AIX, HPUX, Solaris etc.
>
> In the early 90s, along came a guy named Linus Torvolds with a
> dream to create an operating system kernel that could be used to
> make a Unix-like OS that we now collectively know as Linux. The
> biggest difference is Linus wanted the kernel and source code to
> be free and open.
>
> Yes, guys I know this is oversimplified.
>
> From some 20+ years in computing I have found that everything I learned in
> Unix was applicable to Linux. In Linux I found some
> things that are not available in Unix, but as these tools become
> more common, they show up in Unix eventually.
>
> >
> > How do I go about doing this?
> >
> > Where can I get a Linux OS disk?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Jack R.
> >
>
> If you can download a 700 MB file and burn your own CDs, you can
> create your own Linux disks.
>
> My suggestion would be to try out the new Linux Mint. You can do
> several things with it you cannot with some other distributions:
> 1. Run it from the CD without doing anything to your current hard
> disk. This is called a live CD and is available in many distros
> but not all.
> 2. Install a test Linux Mint unders Windows. Mint shares this with
> another good distro called Ubuntu.
> 3. Install Linux Mint alongside Windows without having to understand
> a bunch of technical stuff you can learn later. In this way you
> can make the transition over time. Eventually you will figure out
> you never boot windoze any more so you will wipe it from your
> machine.
>
> Mint is probably the easiest transition from Windows, yet it is
> very much Linux. The biggest difference you will see versus
> windoze is that you do not have to load 20 drivers every time you
> install. There is a free CD burning software package for windoze
> called deepburner you can use to burn the iso. Download the ISO,
> open deepburner, select burn ISO, select the ISO file, then burn
> like the wind. When you restart your computer, start from the CD
> if you want to run the Live CD or install. If you want to try the
> "under windows" version, just reinsert the CD with windoze running.
>
> Loyal
>
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>

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