It’s the 4th Friday of the month and you know it’s time for your favorite A Gentle Introduction to Linux for Non-Geeks again! This week we’ll learn how to put Linux on your PC by downloading a file and simply clicking on it just like installing a Windows application. You should have a broadband connection, and make sure you have at least 256MB of RAM and a 1GHz or faster Intel/AMD processer. To check if you meet the above system requirements, go to Control Panel and click on System. You should have at least 5 GB of free space on your hard disc too. To find out how much free space you have, go to My Computer, under Hard Disk Drives, right click on the hard disk you’d like to install the program and check Properties.
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May 23rd, 2008
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It’s the 4th Friday of the month and you know it’s time for your favorite A Gentle Introduction to Linux for Non-Geeks again! We’ve been talking about what Linux is and how it is different from Microsoft Windows; now we’re finally going to get our hands dirty and actually start playing with Linux. Throughout the next couple of weeks, we’ll be looking at different ways you can run a Linux system directly on your Windows. Today, we’ll learn the easiest way to have a working Linux system on your PC without any installation using a Live CD.
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April 25th, 2008
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It’s the 4th Friday of the month and you know it’s time for your favorite A Gentle Introduction to Linux for Non-Geeks again! You have probably heard about the awesome OLPC project and the Asus eee PC, both of which have Linux as its running operating system. Their popularity got the attention of Bill Gates, who now wants to put his Windows OS on both machines! Thom Holwerda from OS News sums it up perfectly:
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February 22nd, 2008
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It’s the 4th Friday of the month and you know it’s time for your favorite A Gentle Introduction to Linux for Non-Geeks again! Do you know Internet Explorer is not only transmitting all sorts of nasty computer diseases to users and giving security experts headaches, it’s also a big nightmare for web designers?
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December 28th, 2007
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