Which Linux is the best?
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Really depends on a lot of factors most of which are personal preference. Try taking the quiz at http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/.
I'm fairly new to linux and I went with Ubuntu and I don't think I could go back to windows.
Try Damn Small Linux, it can run with as little as 50mb of memory!
Fedora Core 4
Yeah, but DSL is not beautiful. You could use Linux Mint XFCE edition.
http://linuxmint.com/download.html...
The best Linux system will be suse10.0 or suse 10.1 version. But I am not sure if your system can support it or not.
red hat
Suse (ie Open Suse) is quite user friendly, but I'm not sure how well supported tablet PCs are. You can check the compatibility info at www.opensuse.org in order to see whether your hardware is well supported or not. (I am enjoying Suse 10.2 at the moment in a dual boot system with Win XP, everything works fine).
Hope it helps
Rosie
First opinions about Linux are a dime a dozen, everyone has their own personal favorites. You might have to try a few to see which one you like.
The question is what do you want to do with it and what kind of support do you need. If you are a relative novice to computers and operating systems then I suggest that you look at Fedora and get the latest version. I believe that Core 6 is the currently supported one. If you do use Fedora then you need to go to the Unofficial Fedora FAQ and do what they tell you there to get all the goodies. There are legal reasons that Fedora does not include things like Flash and Sun Java but you can install them easily.
I do suggest that you partition your Linux install as follows.
/boot = 100 meg
/ (root) = 4-6 gig
swap = twice the amount of memory you have. In my case I have 1 gig so I have a 2 gig swap partition.
/home = as much as you feel you need since this is where all your data goes. I set up /home as LVM so I can add space to my /home directory as needed.
You can put it all in one partition but then if you want to re-install or install a new distro you might lose all your data.
Some are going to say you don't need that much for the root directory but but this allows you to add a lot of programs and play with it. The reason for splitting everything off is that with the /home directory separated you can install a new release or a new distribution without losing your data in your /home directory. In fact if you have a large enough hard drive or a second one you can even have multiple versions of Linux installed and multi boot to them.
Make sure that you research your hardware and linux for compatability. Not all hardware works with Linux. Do a google search for Linux compatabilty. Linux.org is a good place to start.
I also suggest that if you are going to play with Linux get a good book on it. I like the Osbourne Complete Reference and make sure that you get a current one. Many book stores have old versions on the shelf.
One thing you mention that you have Winxp on that system, that means that if you want to dual boot with XP you need to reduce the size of the Windows partition. Knoppix Linux Bootable Cd has a utility to resize an NTFS partition.
Good Luck
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