> I am currently running on windows XP pro and it's getting to the point of > I blaming Windows (Microsoft) for all of the problems that i have been > having. I would like to try another OS but It cant be too advanced. > > I am a newbie in Linux so maybe you guys can help. > > What do you recommand me on downloading that is 1 step ahead of windows. > > thanks > > Brittany > What i IMHO could recommend is, you build your first opinion by yourself, whether you find linux the right os for you. Best you can do is trying out with knoppix. it's a bootable cd, which directly starts a linux, and as i remember the main software should be up on this cd. Also, this leaves your harddisk as it is at the moment, you work from cdrom... Afterwards, if the knoppix-introdction gave you a good feeling (i am sure about...) you have a lot of distributions like Fedora (my personal favourite), debian, mandrake (free for download) or suse (ftp-installation or boxed product). There are many many others, those - i think - should be the most known. A good info-source would be linux-magazine edition february 2004, where you got a bit comparison test between the most known distros. Unfortunately, the have just the intro-online... btw.: knoppix you get on one cd on http://www.knoppix.org HTH Roger
