8. What do you need?
You will require a computer and a medium containing a Linux distribution. Most of this guide applies to all Linux distributions - and UNIX in general. Apart from time, there are no further specific requirements.
The Installation HOWTO contains helpful information on obtaining Linux software and installing it on your computer. Hardware requirements and coexistence with other operating systems are also discussed.
CD images can be downloaded from linux-iso.com and many other locations, see Appendix A.
For those who don’t dare take the step of actually installing Linux on their machine, there are Linux distributions you can run from a CD, such as Knoppix, Ubuntu, Kanotix or Mepis. These LiveCDs, as they are called, are not installed on your system at all - they run from RAM only. You get back to your usual OS as soon as you reboot.
Kanotix and Knoppix LiveCD distributions are fast. Kanotix is optimized for laptops. As for Ubuntu, it is noticeably slower, but easy to install when one wants to switch from LiveCD to an installed Linux OS.
Other LiveCD distributions are listed on this Distrowatch.com webpage: CD-based Linux Distributions and Live Linux CDs
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Welcome to LinuxBasics.org - The online community that helps people to get Linux installed and running.
During this tour, we will guide you through our website, which has many facets which wait to be explored
The biggest project we are running is our Linux course, based on the LBook.
The book is stored in wiki-format, which enables us to update and correct it as we go.
Discussion for the course is on our Forum
Our mailing-list is for any Linux-related question.
The questions and answers from the list are stored in the list's archives in order to help others with the same problems.
Every weekend, we meet to chat in IRC. These meetings are NOT mandatory, but are a nice chance to get to know each other better.
IRC is also a great tool to solve many problems, since it is very quick and easy to ask for more details if you need them.
The tutorials are one of the oldest sections on the LBo-website.
Here you find explanations on how to do specific tasks in Linux. Many of the tutorials were created after a certain problem
has been discussed (and usually solved :) on the mailing-list.
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In the links section, you find outbound links to other valuable resources.
One of our later additions to the site. We maintain a mirror of the Linux Documentation Project. This is our contribution to the "home of the HOWTOs"
Another later addition is the LBlog which focuses on how to do stuff on the Linux Desktop. It begins with the basics on installing Ubuntu.
Using the integrated site-search, you can search the tutorials, the LBook and all other wiki-pages
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