Hi

I am very new to Linux, but very keen to learn it.

I am having a desktop of 300 MHz with 128 MB RAM and 30 GB hard drive with Windows XP.
My first question is - Is there any version/flavour of Linux available that can be installed on above system especially Fedora with less compromise in terms of speed?

I am also having a 6 GB extra hard drive.

Please give me the suggesion what should I do ?
- Should I Make a dual operating system
- or use separate hard drive for linux as I am afraid using dual opearing system as if it may disturb Windows XP also, thereby making other windows based application non functional.

Also if u could show me the way to install linux, I would be very grateful.

Please help me out.

Thanks in advance.

A dual install is nice but there is a chance you will damage your windows os if you make an error. But if you switch hard drives, that should be very safe and it gives you a way to try out Fedora first. So I suggest that switch to your second hard drive install Fedora or another Linux there and after you get some experience with that you can decide whether or not to try the dual boot. I would expect Fedora to run OK on your system. Actually my suggestion is a minimum of 256 MB for Windows/XP so I'm surprised to hear that you're running XP with only 128MB.

thanks Perderabo for ur reply.
Yes, it is true XP is running fine on 128 MB RAM.
Perderabo, please tell me which version of Fedora is best suitable for my system and also can I download the same from internet ?

Fodora download page is: Fedora Project

You can certainly run the versions labeled i386. I'm pretty sure that you are compatable with the versions labeled i686 as well. The i686 chips first cam out in the mid 90's and I doubt that anything earlier than that can run at 300 MHZ.

You will need to decide which you want. The install media is what you're used to. You boot it and it interacts with you to install the OS on a hard disk. The "live media" is different. You boot it and it ignores the hard disk. You do not install anything... it is an OS on a CD. Pretty cool way to try out an OS, but not how I would want to operate.

thanks Perderabo, I will download the same from mentioned website and try to load and then I will let u know.
one more thing Perderabo, if I opt for live media, then will it give me complete fedora environment or limited one ? Also I don't have DVD Player but CD player, will it work ? Thanks.

I gotta believe it's limited but I never used it. And looking at that page, only a few live cd's are there. The rest are DVD's. Maybe you need to get a dvd.

Ok Perderabo, I will arrange the same. But thank u so much, U r really a quick responsive person.