Traintables are labor :-)
Linux is easy:
Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
Contains both the download and the installation instructions. Perhaps a
recommendation regarding partitioning: Create at least a separate "home"
partition if installing to replace an existing O/S, swap partition should be
at least = to physical RAM, Let Ubuntu handle partitioning if installing to
dual boot with Windows, simply adjust the partition sizes as needed. The
rest of the installation should be almost a no-brainer. This is perhaps the
easiest distro for non-computer types--my wife's mother started with her
first computer and Ubuntu two years ago, at age 70+, and has had no problems
with it.. Ubuntu is distributed separately from Debian, although based upon
it.
Fedora version 12 is also very nice, but more aimed at computer types than
general users, IMHO. General instructions are the same, but you'll answer
far more questions when installing Fedora than Ubuntu.
http://fedoraproject.org/
Email me direct if you want help, and/or have more questions, Boris, and
don't want to carry on a long OT conversation here.
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Scott Gomez
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Willie Wonka <alienspecimen@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I have two assignments given to me by my fav son and wife:
>
> Build a room with traintables and install Linux on all computers at home.
>
> I started researching which Linux version to install and how to do this.
> Is it me, or the installation of it has become exponentially more complex in
> the last ten years? I ran Linux on my machines at the end of the nineties
> and the process was not so complicated...
>
> So I want to install Linux on three computers. I would like to be able to
> use Linux and Windoz on two of them and only Linux on the third. One of the
> computers that will run both OS's is a Dell minilaptop. For now I only care
> for the open office apps and gimp, but dont mind installing an entire
> package (2500 apps?)
>
> I would like recommendations on a free OS, Debian and Ubuntu are the ones I
> looked at, and clear directions how to do installation that would satisfy
> the requirements above. I dug into the plethora of info on both sites for
> an hour and still dont have the instructions at hand...
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Boris
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