New to Linux

[John Myshrall]

Joseph wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>First off I would like to wish everyone, all the best in 2006!
>I am new to Linux but I have been working with windows for about 10 years.
>I was wondering if I could get some pointers on the best place to start.
>There are some many versions of Linux, which one would you recommend?
>Also how about websites and books.
>You guys seem to know your stuff. Hopefully a beginner can ask these kind of
>questions here.
>Thanks in advance,
>Joseph
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Welcome aboard and all the best as well.

If you are looking for a book. I would suggest Marcel Gagne's "Moving to 
Linux Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye" Marcel is also on this list 
and has a website. It actually comes with a live Linux distro called 
Knoppix. It's now in its second edition. 
http://www.marcelgagne.com/mybooks.html

You may want to consider playing around with some live CD versions. You 
don't have to install them on your hard drive because they run off the 
CDROM and memory only. Most if not all of them have utility to install 
on the hard drive if you want. If you don't have high speed Internet 
connection usually a request on this list will get you a copy.

I like Mepis and Knoppix. I hear some good things about Ubuntu and 
Kbuntu. All these versions are free. Although Mepis does charge for 
theirs a free version is available.

John




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