[nflug] hi

[Ryan Slomiany]

Yes, I'm definitely familiar with burning ISO's.

Would you mind directing me to a link where I could
find Mepis or Ubuntu?

thanks!
--- "John G. Boice" <evrgreen at netsync.net> wrote:

> Hi, Ryan.
> 
> One of the most painless ways to get into learning
> Linux is to use a
> Live CD.  Some distributions have them, some do not.
>  If you set you
> BIOS to boot from the CD-ROM first, a LiveCD will
> boot your computer
> without affecting anything on your hard drive.
> 
> Of course since everything is running in your RAM or
> directly off the
> CD, it is slower than an installed version of Linux
> would be.  But it's
> a no-mistakes way to get introduced to the look and
> feel of some of the
> modern distros.
> 
> I prefer Mepis, myself.  The current stable version
> is 6.0, but 6.5 is
> in Release Candidate 3, and so might be fine to try.
> I have had no
> problems with it.
> 
> Another good distro for beginners is PCLinuxOS.  It
> has very good
> hardware detection out-of-the-box, and looks
> beautiful.
> 
> Ubuntu is the most popular distro for new users. It
> is the first one I
> ever tried, back in 2004.  I don't use it myself
> anymore very much, but
> that is a matter of personal taste. Many NFLUG
> members like it and use it.
> 
> Are you familiar with how to download and burn an
> ISO file to produce a CD?
> 
> --John
> 
> 
> Ryan Slomiany wrote:
> > hi, my name's ryan.
> >
> > i'm new to linux and interested in learning it.
> >
> > which distribution do you recommend? how do I get
> > started? and when's the next meeting?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
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