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Hi, I'm a software engineer and just got laid off after 9 years at the same company. I am interested in installing linux on my PC and learning more about it. I have worked on AIX quite a bit. I saw there is an install fest on May 20th which I am definitely interested in seeing if I can get linux installed. Here is what I have for a PC, it's an older machine and the graphics display is screwed up so that if I look a jpegs or giffs, it looks like a negative, but it works fine for text and anything else. Hopefully that wouldn't effect running linux any more than it effects windows. I am running windows 2000 service pack 2, it shows Fat32 file system, 14 gig hard drive with 10 gig free space. 130,544 KB or ram and an AMD Athlon(tm) processor. I have a CD (read only drive), but also have an external CD burner than can function as a read/write CD drive through a USB port. I'd like to install linux on a partition and still be able to boot windows 2000, I'm wondering what size partition approx would I need for linux ? I could buy another PC, but I'd prefer to see if I can do it all on this one. What linux distribution should I use or would they have something at the install fest ? I would like to get Perl, C++, emacs would it come with those and x windows ? Java might be good also. thanks Larry --------------------------------------------------- Letter content was scanned by WinAntiVirus Pro 2006. No threat detected. Please visit www.winantivirus.com for more details. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20060412/cbef9e80/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 2300 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20060412/cbef9e80/attachment.gif>
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