<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I'm a software engineer and just got laid off after 9 years at the same company.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am interested in installing linux on my PC and learning more about it. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have worked on AIX quite a bit.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I saw there is an install fest o</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>n May 20th which I am definitely interested in</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>seeing if I can get linux installed. Here is what I have for a PC,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>it's an older machine and the graphics display is screwed up so that if</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I look a jpegs or giffs, it looks like a negative, but it works fine for</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>text and anything else. Hopefully that wouldn't effect running linux</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>any more than it effects windows.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am running windows 2000 service pack 2, it shows Fat32 file system, 14 gig</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>hard drive with 10 gig free space. 130,544 KB or ram and an AMD Athlon(tm)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>processor.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a CD (read only drive), but also have an external CD burner than can</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>function as a read/write CD drive through a USB port. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd like to install linux on a partition and still be able to boot windows 2000,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm wondering what size partition approx would I need for linux ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I could buy another PC, but I'd prefer to see if I can do it all on this one.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What linux distribution should I use or would they have something at the install fest ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would like to get Perl, C++, emacs would it come with those and x windows ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Java might be good also.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>thanks</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Larry</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></FONT></DIV><br>
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