[SGVLUG] how to download and install a free linux distribution?

[qun li via SGVLUG]

I just want to get a all around Linux on the box as an alternative to my win laptop. I lean towards putting it on the hard drive. 

    On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 10:51 AM, Bryan Backer via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net> wrote:
 

 Do you want to install it on your hard drive? Or just boot linux to try it out?
If you want to just try a distro or two, making a 'livecd' image that is bootable
directly from CD or thumbdrive would probably be a good starting point.That would let you try out a distro without installing. Once you find one youlike,  you could then take the next step and install it on your harddrive,start booting from that.
For instance, at https://wiki.centos.org/Downloadif you scroll down to the 'Variety of ISO images' sectionyou'll see a discussion of a 'livecd' and what that means.If you see links on that page for 'liveKDE' or 'liveGNOME' theyshould be bootable, runnable without installation setups, differingin their windows manager (KDE vs gnome). 
I'd suggest you give those a try, see what you like, then proceed on
to a real install.

A different alternative for testdriving linux distros is the download virtualboxand run a VM on your system and try linux within that. That is a great way
to test drive but requires a little more robust hardware.



On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 9:41 AM, qun li via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net> wrote:

Like Ubuntu etc.? My understanding is download the distribution, get it on an USB and boot on the computer. Is the downloaded distribution bootable without further tingling?Any recommendation other than Ubuntu?



   
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