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.
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YAY! Another one converted!\n\nThis 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.\n\nI DO NOT want you to try this until someone with more exprience than I comes and checks this for accuracy.\n\nThat being said, lets begin.\n\nYour 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.  \n\nOnce you visit one of their sites and download their package, burn it onto a DVD or a few CDs.  \n\nBefore 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)\n\nPut 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.  \n\nA new boot loader will be installed and you can select either Linux or Windows (sometimes labled as DOS).  \n\nYou 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 \nWhen you open this file there will be a text editor which will have one line that reads: \ndefault=0\nDepending on what your bootloader recognized Windows as on the list change the 0 to an number 0-4.\n\ne.x. (This is the boot manager)\n0.Linux\n1.Tools\n2.Expert\n3.Windows (or DOS)\n\nIn that list you would want to select 3. So, change the default to:\ndefault=3
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You need to agree to them checking your windows is a genuine version before you can load updates.  If it is genuine you have nothing to fear ... if you don't agree then you wont get the updates which is a risk.
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People have mentioned to install Linux.\n\nBut the thing is that when you install programs it might not be so FisherPrice if you know what I mean.\n\nIt is quite hard, and Linux isn't just Linux.\nThere are soo many different types,\nFedora Core, Ubunta, Debian, Mandrake, SUSE,Red Hat(which is gone[and No USB support]), and Knoppix and the list goes on.\n\nIt depends really on what you want to do with your computer, is which Linux distribution you would want to install is Debian because it known for it's ease in installing other 3rd party programs to do your odds and ends i.e. converting mp3s blah blah blah. \n\nIf you want to still use your windows products there is a program for linux called Wine which means Windows Emulator, emulates alot of programs nicely. \n\nBest of all Linux's are free, except for Enterprise editions which you have to pay monthly.
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Hi Deky,\nThere is no Linux for Windows XP. but it is Linux XP 2006.\n\nPlease try following link:\nhttp://www.phazeddl.com/search.php?q=Linux%20XP\n\nI think, this is what you are looking for.\n\nRegards,\nYatin Bhatt
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You can definitely have Linux and Windows Xp as dual boot on ur system. I have 2 linux distros and Windows Xp on my 40GB harddisk. 250 GB is a very high amt of hard disk space.. You can have anything you want installed on it..\n\nBefore going for dual boot, you need to know how to patition the disk for linux installation, and on what steps you should take before doing it..(as you say you are a newbie to linux).. Refer http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/ch-x86-dualboot.html\n\nWhile partitioning, dont allow it to do autopartition, as it would eat up all the free space u have.. Choose "Manual Partition with diskdruid" option and partition it as follows..\n\nYou may assign some 10GB for linux, where the partitioning may be as follows:\n\nMount Point   -----          Size\n------------------------------\n/        ------         5GB\n/home    ------         5GB\n/boot    ------         100MB\nSWAP     ------  3 x RAM_SIZE if ur RAM is less than 512MB if RAM is >512 MB, have ur SWAP as 750MB (This is my personal opinion after a lot of performance testing and optimization)\n\nYou can mount your FAT or NTFS format drives(windows drives) with linux.. so, u dont neeed to assign much extra space to linux, as ext3(linux format) drives cant be seen from windows. You can instead use the mounted windows drives itself for data storage on linux also. This way you can have the maximum amount of hard disk usable on both OSes.\n\nTo start with, Mandriva or Fedora should be good options, as regards to distro.\n\nHope this helps you in installing a dual boot system succesfully.\n\n(PS: Remember that installing Windows XP first and then installing linux is the easiest way, as linux would detect windows and boot it, whereas windows wont detect linux. Though there are other ways to recover linux partition if u install linux before installing windows, its not the recommended way for a newbie)
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Use "wine", but don't expect miracles. You're better off looking for a Linux-comptabile alternative of your win32 application.
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VMWare should do the trick for you.  It will give you a fully functional Linux OS inside your Windows OS.  You can do it the other way around too, but the parasite OS relies on the host so If you know windows better, make it the host.  One word of caution, RAM.  The additional OS will use as much RAM as if it were a standalone, so load up.
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I don't want to ramble on.... lets just say that Ubuntu is the coolest thing since sliced cheese.\n\nI run a design/computer firm so I am sorta stuck with windows until Codeweavers gets Crossover Office running photoshop cs2 on linux.(You will learn about running windows applications on linux shortly)\n\nHowever, NO MORE SUCKING ON THE TEET THAT IS MICROSOFT for us. I use ubuntu for everything else. \n\nIt took me approximately 10 hours to sort out what I was doing to port my entire office over(except for color management and printing stuff).  Two Ubuntu builds later, I am making insane money porting peoples offices from windows to linux.\n\nYou will have absolutely no problems intalling ubuntu or using it and you will never turn back...\n\nNo more hard locks, no more blue screens, no more poop...\n\nEdit: As a matter of fact we will provide instruction if you get stuck and will help you for free!\n\n\nhope that helps, freedom is just around the corner!
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pretty much any distro will run on it, just pick a distro and download the 368 version.\n\nfeel free to email me or im me if you have questions.
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Just to clarify the early statement. There are some core pieces of the Mac OS that are not supported on the PC side. So it is not likely that we will see anything like that happen. But if you have an old machine laying around you might take a stab at a flavor of linux.
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I don't know if it is possible yet. I would suggest you to do a dual  boot installation. windows on one partition and linux on other.
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It really depends on where it's looking for the Windows version.  But it's unlikely you will be able to "fool" the installer.\n\nI agree it would probably run.  The company probably wants to limit what it supports.\n\nTry google there may be a hack
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you should not be able to se your linux partitions in windows....the filesystem is different.\nthough you could see your windows filesystems in linux
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Linux is very different from Windows even if it's trying to catch up it still don't have the same softwares.\nOf course you will find all you need on the internet, software that is mostly free and that replaces your usual software. For exemple you won't find Microsoft office on linux but you can find open office...\nYou can find Java, not really sure but probably macromedia flash... For adobe I don't know which soft you use but if it's only for acrobate reader you have softs like xpdf that displays a pdf file, you may find the gimp that's used to work on pictures...\n\nFor the configuration let's tell you high and clear, it's a completly different thing... You won't find anything exactly has it was on windows, so you can't take your windows configuration, save it and put it back for linux...\n\nThat's about it...\nGood luck
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Best solution: convert to a dual-boot system - Linux and Windows - and STOP USING WINDOWS ON THE INTERNET. Download the Big Daddy ISO from http://pclinuxos.com/ and burn the ISO and boot the CD. You can repartition the hard drive and create a dual-boot system with no harm to your data - and access all the pictures, etc. from Linux.\n\nI just recovered a Windows XP system that I consider typical. Full of photos and music, but with about 30 gigs left. Used 10 gigs for Linux. Removed 226 distinct malware package TYPES (well over 1,000 files) of malware, mostly using the free Spybot program at http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html but be careful, many try to get you to download their malware by having web sites and programs of similar names. BTW, I consider Adware as just more spyware, not a removal tool.\n\nRemoved Symantec and all other "protection" software. Added AGV Free antivirus from http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1 , but configured it in manual mode. It was interesting to me that I found NO VIRUS on her system. Virus attacks are rare these days because malware is so much more efficient for the spam factories. Added Windows Firefox and upgraded to IE 7, and ended up with a system that ran 10 times faster (due to elimination of the spamming and keyboard mapping).\n\nSo this lady now avoids mixing Internet and Windows. It's like drinking and driving. Linux is secure, Windows is worse than trying to cross a lake in a colander.\n\nAs long as Internet Explorer is used, no firewall or malware or virus protection is worth a flip. A "click attack" is all the attacker needs to take control of Windows. I counted 11 NEW click-attack spams this AFTERNOON at Yahoo alone. One even made it into my mailbox. But I use Linux (and Firefox).\n\nAmazing. Above is an answer with a CLICK ATTACK! The answerer claims Firefox disables spyware and virus attacks, which it does not. You cannot have a secure computer and Windows. Not even on Yahoo Answers! Get Firefox ONLY at http://mozilla.com/ and not elsewhere.\n\nGood luck!
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I know a few people with non genuine versions and they have been online for years. You aren't a fool. No one expects a computer to contain a os that isn't authentic. Do you know much about changing the os? Try Linux. Look on Ebay for a version with temporary support, it will cost a little but not anywhere near what it costs for Windows. SUSE(a type of Linux) comes with 30 days support when bought in box form. That is the only real drawback with Linux is the lack of official support but there are forums you can pose questions for great answers and most everything is being written for the Linux system also these days. Give it a go if you can't get the Windows to work properly, the great thing about Linux is that once you bought the system, you can put it on whatever computers you want, unlike Microsofts os. Linux want to be spread around the world. They work towards the free and equitable access to the internet and computers for all.
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Why don't you try the live on cd versions of most of these distributions, before you decide on the version you install? Advantages are, you'll be able to select the one whose look and feel suit you best, and you will also know your hardware compatibility with each distribution before you actually install it. \nI've been meddling around with the live on cd versions of Mandriva, Linspire and PCLinuxOS. You might even think about ease of installation, in which case you could visit www.slynux.org, or try PCLinuxOS. \nI personally am planning on installing Mandriva or Ubuntu. Will be giving it a bit more thought, though!\nA list of distributions is available at :\nhttp://www.linux.org