Re: linux on PC ?

Thanks to everyone for all the posts.


I allready have windows 2000 installed on my PC at home. I don't have
the disk to reinstall windows.
Once I had a virus and I paid my ex girlfriend to reinstall windows
2000. She had a disk and is trained in A+.
She seemed to have alot of difficulty. It would be nice if there was an
easy reliable way to install linux without haveing to reinstall
windows. My PC is fairly old anyway and I should soon think of getting
another one but I have been putting it off as buying another PC will
only encourage me to surf the internet more and it's been a problem
addiction in a way as I waste too much time surfing the net. Besides
that I can't decide if I should spend the extra on a laptop if I decide
to go back to school for a masters degree.

I have a PC at work, but I am affraid I could mess it up trying to
install linux
and the admins would be upset with me.

I saw there are live CD versions of linux like knoppix that can just
run off a CD. They say you can
install it on a hard drive, but there is no mention if you can create a
partition on your hard drive that it
can read from when it boots from the CD, thus the OS would be on the
CD, but it could write to
the hard disk.

Are there any free linux systems you can telnet to and use ? I wanted
to look into
perl with Akopia Interchange, some web hosts advertise it, but no real
freebies seem easy to find.

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