On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 19:25 -0500, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi everybody. > > I recently got a new computer and I'm going to use my old computer for > trying out linux and generally experimenting on. Although I'm > generally > pretty handy and able to figure stuff out I have absolutely no > programming > or professional computer experience. Would fedora be way out of my > league > or are there other people out there that are just kind of tinkering > around? > (This is not a technical question - I'm sure my old computer could > handle it > - I'm not sure whether I can.) And if you think not - is there a good > beginners' basic linux? > > Thanks in advance for any comments > > Matt Not at all, FC 3 is a great place to start. You may want to try liveCDs also. Live CDs are versions of linux that run from CD - you put them in, boot from CD. When you are done, remove the CD and reboot, and you are back in Windows. Here is a list of LiveCDs: http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php A great one for beginner's can be found here: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html
