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! I’m going to keep this one short because one of my best friends from high school is coming to visit me for a week, and I want to tidy up my messy apartment before picking him up from the airport. As any best friends would do for their best friends, I stuffed the fridge with lots of our favorite foods and products from the supermarket. Let’s just say it’s a whole lot of sugary goodness! Since we’re both very omnivorous when it comes to eating, if it’s yummy, it’s in the cart. But for the more health conscious people the information on the food label is an essential read before any purchase. Apart from the name of the product, the address of the manufacturer, it also gives us the ingredients list and nutrition facts.
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August 24th, 2007
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