linux question

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I concur with John on this Tanya.
Additionally, you can install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) under
Windows. This is an OpenSource Unix environment that includes the GCC
compilers. Cygwin was written by David Korn who wrote the Korn Shell. 

Linux is a much better solution for your purposes since you are a
computer science student.

 On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:21:30 -0500
"John Abreau" <jabr at blu.org> wrote:

> Hi, Tanya. Installing Linux shouldn't be a problem. Our next Installfest
> will be
> in February or March; in the meantime, you can usually get decent advice
> on our discussion list, which you can subscribe to at
> 
>     http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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> There are a number of good Linux distributions to choose from. I generally
> use Red Hat or Fedora myself. For an older machine that doesn't have
> much memory, I've heard good things about Xubuntu and DamnSmallLinux.
> 
>     http://fedora.redhat.com/
>     http://www.xubuntu.org/
>     http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
> 
> 
> On 12/10/06, tvieira19 at comcast.net <tvieira19 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I am a computer science student, and I desperatly need to practice my
> > c programming skills.  I am only comfortable using unix to write c code, but
> > I only have windows xp on my computers at home.  I have an older computer my
> > cousin is giving me which currently has windows 98 running on it.  I want to
> > completely wipe out that os, and install linux but I am not sure which one I
> > need, and if it is even possible.  If you could help me that would be
> > great!  Thanks so much for you time.
> > Tanya
> >
> 
> 
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