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Unhappy Linux - Help Required

Hi guys!

i have spent a whole day browsing and i couldn''t find a provider distributing free linux. I am a beginner and am looking for one that can run on Windows 98SE.

Would deeply appreciate if you guys can help me. I went into "mirrors" site and was given lots of directory to d/l but i ain't have the idea which files are appropriate.

p/s: any thing i should take note when installing linux on my pc?

thanks a great deal!!!!!!

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First of all you can buy Redhat or Mandrake Linux at any bookstore like Borders or "Barnes and Noble" for around $20 to $30.


But, Here are a few free ones.

http://www.linux.org/dist/

http://www.slackware.com/

http://www.freebsd.org/

http://www.gnu.org

http://www.freeos.com/articles/3777/
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Few distro's at www.linuxiso.org
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Linux doesn't run on Windows 98SE. It doesn't run in any operating system (except as a shell) because it is it's own OS.
Sounds like you have a long road ahead. Good luck.
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You might also want to look into loadlin

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Could always try;
  • ZipSlack is a special edition of Slackware Linux that can be installed onto any FAT (or FAT32) filesystem with about 100 MB of free space. It uses the UMSDOS filesystem and contains most of the programs you will need. This means that you do not need to repartition your hard disk if you already have DOS or Windows installed. ZipSlack installs into a directory on your DOS filesystem. It can also be installed to and booted from a Zip disk.
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you can check out cygwin. search google for it.
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I can wholeheartedly recommend cygwin

We use a bunch of Windoze 2000 machines at work (and an HP-UX 10 machine) and I install cygwin on anything that boots.

If I could count the amount of times that "find" has got me out of a hole that Windows crappy "search" function has failed to sort out.........

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