Play with Linux

After I read a post at MielonG's Diary, I try googled to learn more about Linux. Actually, this is not the first time I use a Linux distro. Back in 1998, I try to use Mandrake. That time, the installation was not as easy as current linux installation. As a new linux user, to know about swap, usr, var and many other partition name was like a kid trying to learn calculus, so confusing. That time to find help using internet was hard. The only way to learn was by going to library and read a lot of books without the search tool

The nightmare didn't stop there. After installation, I need a few days to get my sound card and tv card to work properly. After 2 months, I reverted back to Win98.

So now, with all the 2 months knowledge disappear within my briliant brain, I challenge myself to play with Linux again.

Now, once again I'm a newbie

My Test Machine

E4300 Core2Duo Processor 1.8Ghz (no overclock)

2Gb DDR2 X 2 (Total 4Gb)

Intel® P965 Chipset Motherboard

500G Harddisk

ATI HD2600XT 256MB DDR3

Onboard sound

Live-CD

From wikipedia,

"A Live CD or LiveCD or CD Live Distro is a computer operating system that is executed upon boot, without installation to a hard disk drive. Typically, the LiveDistro is named after the bootable medium it is stored on, such as a CD-ROM or DVD (Live CD/DVD) or a USB flash drive (Live USB)."

Live CD is like linux on disk. No installation needed and no change made to hard disk unless we instructed to do so. There are a lots of Live Cd available in the internet and of course there are free to download. Example Ubuntu, Mandriva, Knoppix and Fedora.

I already tested all the Live CD mentioned above. Surprisingly, all are easy to use. Anyone can try using them without any Linux knowledge. My internet connection and all my hardwares work wonderfully. So I highly recommended Live CD to everyone who want to feel and learn Linux.

Linux CD also can serve as installation disk. But I haven't try this option yet because I don't want to mess up my current OS installation.

Next post, VMware with linux.