Putting linux on a netbook

I believe that once you create the partition in error you will create a cosmic anomaly that will evolve into a black hole in mere nanoseconds resulting in the end of the galaxy.

You will then be responsible for the deaths of trillions of living beings throughout the know known universe all because you felt it would be interesting to learn the open source operating system!

Can you live with that possibility Seed? Well can you?!

.... **** happens?

I understand it is possible to dual boot Windows and Linux. Another approach would be to boot to Linux and run Windows under a virtual machine. (We have an engineer at our company that does this.)

For a beginner, I'd recommend the Ubuntu distribution. It'll even boot from a CD to let you try it out.

I don't quite understand that part. I have a friend that will help me do this. And I will probably seek out his help after the holidays, but I would like an understanding of this before I do it.

I'm just curious about the size of the hard drive of this netbook. True Linux must be smaller then Windows ... (XP?)

Virtualization is one of the hot new things in computing.

In classic computing, the operating system interacts directly with the hardware.

In virtualized environments, the operating system interacts with an abstraction layer rather than with the hardware directly.

It's even possible to run multiple virtualized machines simultaneously on the same hardware. (This is generally more beneficial for larger environments; shared memory pages allow leveraging expensive RAM, multiple machines on the same hardware allow reductions in energy usage, etc.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization

http://www.vmware.com/virtualization/what-is-virtualization.html

Another benefit of virtualization is the ability to migrate to new hardware without having to reinstall the operating system on the virtual machine; this is a huge time and money savings when performing disaster recovery.

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voila, Linus on your Netbook

You have to copy and save multiple pictures of Linus as the plural of Linus is Linux.

it's a 160g hd. Small but packs a big punch!

It's not hard at all to install Linux most of the time. You may have some issues with drivers but getting Linux installed and running is usually very easy.

I second Drew Dad's recommendation for both Ubuntu as well as trying the boot from CD option first so you can test it out without making any changes to your system.

If you decide you want to really use it as your main OS, I recommend dual booting over virtualization and you can set up your computer to dual boot with Windows pretty easily, here is Ubuntu's manual on doing it:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot



With dual-boot you can. I have one of my laptops running this way, after booting it asks me to select from the installed operating systems and I can either boot in to Windows or Linux.

Fairly easy, and quite hasssle-free in my experience. Nevertheless, the initial section of the instructions to which Robert linked bear repeating: backup, backup, backup!