Q. i have a computer with no operating system on it. It's pretty useless right now so i want to put linux on it since its free. All the sites aren't helping.
I just need to know where i can download linux to a disk and pop it into my blank computer and have it start installing on to it. A. ok, well to me it seems liek you know nothing about linux. except its free and lots of people say "go with linux its great"
it is great, but only if you know how to use it. it seems you just want a free operating system. Because you want just a new operating system to run i would recommend Linspire, it is what used to be known as "Lindows" although linspire costs something, they do have a free version called "Freespire" it is VERY easy to use it was my first linux distro ( now i am into slackware [Wolvix])
most people will says screw that! learn how to use linux, you can.... but you probably wont, you will probably get bored of it because you just dont know how to use it.
ubuntu is great, mepis is great red hat is great, their are plenty of great ones out there... but its kinda a "to each his own" typa thing if you want a free operating system that is easy to use and you dont have to learn commands just to install a program i would go with Freespire, it is a lot like windows, just faster, safer, and ..not windows.
it has all kinds of free software and windows emulators built it, it is easy to find new software with "click and run" service.
Heres where you can download that: http://www.freespire.org/
also if you do want to learn how to use linux but still be able to use the computer you can do that with this distro as well its still linux
How to download the Linux or FreeBSD down to the CD burner?
Q. Because downloaded Linux and FreeBSD are compressed image file, then with FreeBSD downloaded files Disc1, Disc2, Disc3, so I do not know how to do before they can be burned into the CD, I can tell how Office?
A. ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!
It has several 'Modes', each one for performing a different task:
http://www.imgburn.com/
Is it possible to download LINUX on a Windows machine?
Q. I am wondering that downloading LINUX on the Windows machine will cause any problem with my computer and applications that run on Windows or not.
A. YAY! Another one converted!
This has always been a troublesome thing. I'm not going to lie to you. If this is done incorrectly, you can completly delete all windows data and everything that is sacred to you.
I DO NOT want you to try this until someone with more exprience than I comes and checks this for accuracy.
That being said, lets begin.
Your first and very important choice, what version of Linux do you want? For a beginner such as yourself, I suggest a version with a self installer: Xandros or Red Hat Fedora.
Once you visit one of their sites and download their package, burn it onto a DVD or a few CDs.
Before you use this, you need to set aside extra room on your hard drive for Linux. You can do this by getting Ranish Partition Manager at: http://www.ranish.com/part/ and take some space (at least 8 GB) out of your Windows partition. Leave this data in unformated space (no partiton format)
Put this disk into the correct drive, and proceed to make your partitions. The self-installers should be able to select the extra space you made before and utilize it to make Linux.
A new boot loader will be installed and you can select either Linux or Windows (sometimes labled as DOS).
You can change the default Operating System the Boot Loader boots into, but be careful. Run your system in Linux. When you have booted up, open the following file: /etc/grub.conf
When you open this file there will be a text editor which will have one line that reads:
default=0
Depending on what your bootloader recognized Windows as on the list change the 0 to an number 0-4.
e.x. (This is the boot manager)
0.Linux
1.Tools
2.Expert
3.Windows (or DOS)
In that list you would want to select 3. So, change the default to:
default=3
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