<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492619779422_6687"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492619779422_6688">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.</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 10:51 AM, Bryan Backer via SGVLUG <sgvlug@sgvlug.net> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5695263317"><div><div dir="ltr">Do you want to install it on your hard drive? Or just boot linux to try it out?<div><br clear="none"></div><div>If you want to just try a distro or two, making a 'livecd' image that is bootable<br clear="none">directly from CD or thumbdrive would probably be a good starting point.</div><div>That would let you try out a distro without installing. Once you find one you</div><div>like, you could then take the next step and install it on your harddrive,</div><div>start booting from that.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>For instance, at <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://wiki.centos.org/Download">https://wiki.centos.org/Download</a></div><div>if you scroll down to the 'Variety of ISO images' section</div><div>you'll see a discussion of a 'livecd' and what that means.</div><div>If you see links on that page for 'liveKDE' or 'liveGNOME' they</div><div>should be bootable, runnable without installation setups, differing</div><div>in their windows manager (KDE vs gnome). </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I'd suggest you give those a try, see what you like, then proceed on<br clear="none">to a real install.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>A different alternative for testdriving linux distros is the download virtualbox</div><div>and run a VM on your system and try linux within that. That is a great way<br clear="none">to test drive but requires a little more robust hardware.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv5695263317yqt0349418506" id="yiv5695263317yqt66652"><div class="yiv5695263317gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv5695263317gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 9:41 AM, qun li via SGVLUG <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:sgvlug@sgvlug.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:sgvlug@sgvlug.net">sgvlug@sgvlug.net</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv5695263317gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div id="yiv5695263317m_5415970882485177844yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492619779422_3909">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?</div><div id="yiv5695263317m_5415970882485177844yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492619779422_3909">Any recommendation other than Ubuntu?</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>