Is it possible to download LINUX on a Windows machine?
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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 should try VMWare which will emulate a Windows OS..
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You can make your system dual boot either on two physical disks or one logical disk. Some Linux distributions already come with set up software to repartition Windows drives and make thm dual boot or you can use a program like Partition Magic which has a wizard for that function.
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On your CD burner program, choose something like "Burn ISO images" or something like that. Then you can use the CDs to install Linux. \n\nRemember, don't just copy these ISO into CDs. It won't work. \n\nGood luck.
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Linux and Windows XP are both operating systems, so you use one instead of the other.  Linux isn't a program that can be installed on Windows XP.\n\nIf you want to try Ubuntu Linux without installing it, try one of the Live CDs (simple) or download vmware or virtual pc and run  Ubuntu inside a virtual machine (complicated).  See sources, below, for info on both options
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One of the easiest distributions is Ubuntu. \n\nIn the site you can get free CDs (live CD - you can use linux without installing it on your PC - and a install CD - if you enjoyed it, you can install on your computer).\n\nCheck out the links below.
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Install Linux, it is free!  Windows 98 is not free, if you get a copy of it that would be software piracy and therefore illegal.  Linux is better anyway, and it is time for you to learn a new operating system (really, it's not that hard)!
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Windows is fine. Linux is fun. Check out www.puppylinux.com. and be prepared to be amazed by what a tiny os running from RAM can do. If that doesn't peak your curiosity just stick to windows.
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The easiest and friendliest complete install of Linux is Ubuntu, available free at http://www.ubuntu.com .
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Get SUSe Linux, It's Free!
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Linux isn't difficult to install, you can either partition your hard drive with something like partition magic then install linux on the empty partition or just insert the disk reboot your machine & follow the instructions as they come up.\nEither way make sure your machine boots from the CD drive before the hard drive. you can alter this easily by going into the bios & changing the boot order. Linux should install itself, repartition your hard drive and install a boot loader on your MBR which will give you the option to start your computer either in windows or linux. If you ask a question about linux it always helps if you say which distribution you are using. mail me if you run into trouble if I can't help I can point you in the right direction, it may be wise to register with www.justlinux.com & check out some of the forums.
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Stop using Windows.  Put Linux on it instead.
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Its possible to do:\nhttp://tomshardware.co.uk/2005/09/09/windows_in_your_pocket/\n\nBut there are many limitations. However Linux runs very well from a USB drive:\nhttp://www.pendrivelinux.com/\nhttp://www.slax.org/\nhttp://www.damnsmalllinux.org/\nhttp://knoppix.org/\n\nIf you just want to install and run windows apps from the usb drive there are a few options that work very well:\nhttp://mojopac.com/portal/content/hellomojo.jspl\nhttp://kk.hopto.org:8080/wiki/index.php/Portable_USB_Drive_Apps\nhttp://www.u3.com/\nhttp://portableapps.com/
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Download the free linux distro Slax. The newest version is 5.18 \nand you can download it from this site: http://www.slax.org/download.php\n\nits free and all you have to do is burn it to a cd as an image with a program like Nero and then restart your computer with the cd in the cd drive. Your computer will boot into linux and when everything is finished loading use the user name "root" and the password "toor" without quotes. After that the slax desktop should appear and then you can click on Konqueror which will be on the bottom left and you will see all the drives on your computer. You can copy files from NTFS drives with slax but you cant edit them.
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Not a chance.\n\nYou can do network boots, but they only really work to load a new OS.
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Yes.  There are bootable linux CDs, the most well known being smoothwall, that can be used to turn a PC into a firewall.\n\nhttp://www.smoothwall.org/
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Vmware and using a live distro although very good don't quite run linux to it's full potential, if you really want to try it properly install it as a dual boot with windows, it can always be removed at a later date.