Re: New to Linux

On Mar 18, 8:34 am, Christian Herenz <her...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
George schrieb:

Hello,

I am a Windows user who wants to experience and learn the Linux
environment. Where do I start? Where can I download the O/S?

Thank you,
George

I always recommend buying a good book to dive into the topic :-)
I've only seen one Linux book thats any good for the home desktop
user. Everything written was by network engineers, for network
engineers. They just dont get it, and snow the ordinary user with
trivia they'll never need on the home desktop.

But Corel came out with a distro based on Debian. They'd been in the
business of writing user manuals for dos users for nearly 20 years,
and if you can find that one, you'll like it. Xandros inherited the
Corel desktop and upgraded from the 2.2 to the 2.4 kernel, and now
with Xandros 4, is at the 2.6 kernel. I havent seen their latest
manual, but the Xandros 2 copy kept up the Corel tradition of clarity
for users.

It'd be nice if someone came out with a distro that was stripped of
all the server software, designed from the ground up just as a desktop
client.
.