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    mattesca's Avatar Poster
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    Ok, can someone please tell me the exact thing I need to download off of suprnova.org to get linux and be able to burn it to a cd. Thanks!
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    Look for ISO files, use Nero to burn them.
    They ar usually all ISO files anyways, then its just a matter of
    choosing the distro, in which, this guide can be helpfull.
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    which one is the most comman that people use?
    AMD Mobile 2400XP @ 2500Mhz 1.75Vcore = 2.5Ghz
    Abit NF7-S with SP-97 heatsink
    OCZ 2X256MB Pc3200 2-2-2-5
    Antec 400watt PSU
    120GB WD HDD
    MSI 9800XT
    Soundblaster Live 5.1
    Black Chieftec Matrix w/ 5BlueLED Case Fans
    800watt Sony/Bose Speaker System

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    Afronaut's Avatar Xenu
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    I dont know which is popular.

    I use Slackware, allthought it may be not the easiest
    for beginner to install.

    Remember to have drivers for all hardware allready on some CD or
    somewhere handy before you start the install, you might need
    them if the distro dont have 'em.
    Atleast the network drivers are good to have, it'll be easier to update and
    get more drivers and stuff if you have network.

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    DanB's Avatar Smoke weed everyday
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    Do you just want it as a live cd or as a full install?

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    full install
    AMD Mobile 2400XP @ 2500Mhz 1.75Vcore = 2.5Ghz
    Abit NF7-S with SP-97 heatsink
    OCZ 2X256MB Pc3200 2-2-2-5
    Antec 400watt PSU
    120GB WD HDD
    MSI 9800XT
    Soundblaster Live 5.1
    Black Chieftec Matrix w/ 5BlueLED Case Fans
    800watt Sony/Bose Speaker System

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    don't download it from suprnova most distros are free and can be downloaded from their home page
    There are 10 types of people in the world those who understand binary and those who dont

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    Mr. Mulder's Avatar pepper your angus BT Rep: +10BT Rep +10
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    Mandrakes Great, I'm a Linux noob and found it easy to use - get it from there site though

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    true_neo's Avatar The Dark Lord Revan
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    I find Fedora Core 3 to be great It has an user friendly installer (although its partition manager is lacking the ability to merge partitions, it is still WAYYYY better than M$'), and its not difficult to get started with.

    Might I offer some small advice from someone that first touched Linux 2 days ago:
    Have Linux on a seperate partition, and then experiment with different ways of setting it up. If aything goes wrong or you dont quite like what your past changes did to the future, you can just format it and reinstall.
    Time consuming, but its good to get accustomed to it.
    After 2 reformats, I am on top of all errors, and are starting to reinstall stuff I had back in the M$ days

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    I say simplyMepis, seems to be a good user friendly distro, but you can boot from the cd to test and make sure all your hardware works out too. Its pretty cool.
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