Where can I find linux builds free?
and what is the best linux build for a simple user..?

 

sorry jared, we're all dumbasses round these parts

 

speak for youself, I'm a fountain of bullshit knowledge

 

Great place to start is with Fedora...

http://fedora.redhat.com/


Core 3.


http://fedora.redhat.com/download/

 

I recommend checking out Redhat's Fedora project.

It's a good starting point for noobs and its easy to get answers to Q's via Google.

Damn, Scrib beat me too it.

 

 

My experience with Linux on a home PC was overall positive but it still needs a lot of work to make it more user friendly. The last time I played around with it was a couple years ago so take everything here with a grain of salt since many things may have changed:

Pros:
-The installation was much easier than I expected but I made sure I had only natively-supported hardware.
-It is a very fast, flexible, stable, and feature-rich operating system
-Open source software is great stuff
-Native 64bit support
-It's cheap or free.

Cons:
-Installing software can be a huge pain in the ass. Home users have a hard enough time installing programs on a windows box, yet alone having to un tar or unzip something then manually configure a script and whatnot. This is the #1 thing they need to fix if they're going to have success on the home front.
-Drivers are just as much of a pain in the ass as regular software. It still seems that there's not enough development being put into linux based drivers.
-There are all of about 5 current games on the market for linux so don't do it unless you have a dual boot system with windows.
-Having hardware that isn't directly supported is a bear to work with.

 

here http://distrowatch.com/
pick one

 

SuSE would be my suggestion. With SuSE you can get a "live cd" to run and see if you like it w/o installing it over Windose.

There are so many websites you can get information from that you'll probably overwhelm yourself with law school and everything else going on in life.

 

he wants free distro

 

It is free to download.

 

if you go to redhat's site they have a free distribution copy you can download. i think its like 3 iso files. i went with redhat because it was one of the more popular builds of linux and figured it might apply more in a work environment.

 

Linux on Bootable CD is the best.....to start and learn on. Much better and easier than having to reformat drives etc.,

 

You can use VMware too. I'm trying out Gentoo. Other workstations I have are Windows Longhorn & soon, Fedora Redhat.

 

that's what my nephew is playing with. kid has got a LAN going on that PC

 

http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/centos-2/

 

yea....that too but if he's just experimenting as home user. Bootable linux is good.

 

Suse is my choice, I have played with them all and at this time it seems the best.

But we will have to see how Novell attempts to screw it up.

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/iso/

 

yeah SuSE you get to learn German at the same time

 

Novell, the big red abeNd
hopefully they can't do too much damage though.