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Linux for a Windows junky

Wed, 21 January 2004 05:36

HiltonL

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Hiy'all.

Gible's post in the puzzle thread got me thinking.

I've been a Windows junky since Win 95 came out - close to a decade now. I used to be a regular UNIX user at my university, but now develop with Microsoft tools on Windows for a living. Without wanting to start any flamewars - for the most part I'm very happy and generally think that Microsoft has produced (generally) excellent products for the last 4 or 5 years.

However, part of me yearns back to the UNIX environment - the REAL use of the command line, the lighter kernel and tools, the raw efficiency, the trend towards open-source. I find each visit to sourceforge.net really exciting and I'm disappointed each time I have to choose the Windows binaries to download. Sad

I think it's the idealist techy inside me trying to get out.

I'm not really willing to turn my life upside-down over this, but I've got a few gigs to spare on both my home and work PCs, and would love to install Linux just to play with and experiment with - if there was an easy way to do it on my WindowsXP PC. Every time I look at a distribution it's laden with warnings about co-habiting with 2000/XP, and it seems if you make a mistake you could well lose your existing installation.

Can anyone point me to user-friendly distributions that are going to nicely cohabitate with Windows XP on one hard drive? As I said, I'm keen to do it, but not if it's going to be a massive headache or risk.

Thanks in advance for the advice.
Cheers
Hilton

BTW - My development machine at work is running with XP, MySQL, MSSql2000, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET... Currently running PHP/MySQL apps of UT2003 localstats, AATradewars and others. So I'm not a COMPLETE Microsoft junky. Very Happy

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		Linux for a Windows junky By: HiltonL on Wed, 21 January 2004 05:36
		Re: Linux for a Windows junky By: Ron on Wed, 21 January 2004 12:02
		Re: Linux for a Windows junky By: HiltonL on Wed, 21 January 2004 13:11
		Re: Linux for a Windows junky By: Ron on Wed, 21 January 2004 13:44
		Re: Linux for a Windows junky By: HiltonL on Wed, 21 January 2004 13:56
		Re: Linux for a Windows junky By: gible on Wed, 21 January 2004 18:31
		Re: Linux for a Windows junky By: Ron on Wed, 21 January 2004 21:21
		Re: Linux for a Windows junky By: HiltonL on Thu, 22 January 2004 00:38
		Re: Linux for a Windows junky By: nash on Thu, 22 January 2004 21:58
		Re: Linux for a Windows junky By: HiltonL on Fri, 23 January 2004 00:19
		Re: Linux for a Windows junky By: gible on Fri, 23 January 2004 01:36
		Re: Linux for a Windows junky By: steev on Fri, 23 January 2004 09:29
		Re: Linux for a Windows junky By: HiltonL on Mon, 02 February 2004 04:08
		Re: Linux for a Windows junky By: HiltonL on Mon, 02 February 2004 04:39
		Re: Linux for a Windows junky By: Ron on Mon, 02 February 2004 11:26
		Re: Linux for a Windows junky By: HiltonL on Mon, 02 February 2004 11:32
		Re: Linux for a Windows junky By: nash on Mon, 02 February 2004 21:19
		Re: Linux for a Windows junky By: HiltonL on Tue, 03 February 2004 00:08

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