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

[Claude Felizardo via SGVLUG]

You may also want to consider setting up for dual boot of linux and windows if you have already paid the windows tax and you still have one or more applications that work better (or only) on windows.  I've done this with just about every laptop I owned.   It's been a while but the last time I looked the distros usually supported this from the install disc.

I have also used VirtualBox first with an online compiler class where the instructor provided a ready-to-go development environment with all the documentation, tools, assignments and test cases; and for work where I have several images for testing one of our products on different platforms.

Claude


> On Apr 19, 2017, at 12:02 PM, qun li via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 10:51 AM, Bryan Backer via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net> wrote:
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> Do you want to install it on your hard drive? Or just boot linux to try it out?
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> 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 you
> like,  you could then take the next step and install it on your harddrive,
> start booting from that.
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> For instance, at https://wiki.centos.org/Download <https://wiki.centos.org/Download>
> if you scroll down to the 'Variety of ISO images' section
> you'll see a discussion of a 'livecd' and what that means.
> If you see links on that page for 'liveKDE' or 'liveGNOME' they
> should be bootable, runnable without installation setups, differing
> in 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.
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> 
> A different alternative for testdriving linux distros is the download virtualbox
> and 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.
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> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 9:41 AM, qun li via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net <mailto: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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