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linux question



Hi, Tanya. Installing Linux shouldn't be a problem. Our next Installfest
will be
in February or March; in the meantime, you can usually get decent advice
on our discussion list, which you can subscribe to at

    http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

There are a number of good Linux distributions to choose from. I generally
use Red Hat or Fedora myself. For an older machine that doesn't have
much memory, I've heard good things about Xubuntu and DamnSmallLinux.

    http://fedora.redhat.com/
    http://www.xubuntu.org/
    http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/


On 12/10/06, tvieira19 at comcast.net <tvieira19 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hi, I am a computer science student, and I desperatly need to practice my
> c programming skills.  I am only comfortable using unix to write c code, but
> I only have windows xp on my computers at home.  I have an older computer my
> cousin is giving me which currently has windows 98 running on it.  I want to
> completely wipe out that os, and install linux but I am not sure which one I
> need, and if it is even possible.  If you could help me that would be
> great!  Thanks so much for you time.
> Tanya
>



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