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Operating Systems Linux Need suggestions or references to find a way to get free Linux on Windows Post 302951181 by vincent72 on Monday 3rd of August 2015 06:28:50 PM

08-03-2015

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Originally Posted by pat_pramod

Hi all,

I am sorry if this is a repetitive question and would be happy if I get directed to a source where I can find details about this.

I have a laptop with windows 8, 8 GB RAM and 1 TB hard disk with most of the memory available for use.
I am trying to find a good option to install Linux as an additional OS on it (if it's possible). I know a little of shell scripting and perl and want to use this Linux version to work more on Perl and hoping to configure a web server like apache when I reach to that stage.

I have tried to search online and found some options like using VMWare, Cygwin, dual OS/boot and coLinux. Out of these I think only dual OS/boot or coLinux could be useful if I want to try web server configuration, etc.

While coLinux looks like best option, I came across lot of negative feedback about it which stoppped me from trying it out.

Can you please provide me your suggestion on using coLinux or any alternate option that I can try. Any references that you can provide would be of great help to me.

Thanks in advance!

Dual boot is the definite option.

The latest Linux distros available will do the job and you'll be able to partition your HDD without a problem provided you follow the instruction prompted throughout the install process.

I'd recommend Ubuntu for its ease of use/install/setup/documentation/community but feel free to check out other distros.

I've been using/testing all of them distros (from gentoo to linux mint including CentOS or Archlinux and Mandriva...) and I'd strongly recommend Ubuntu as of today.

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tailf

TAILF(1)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  TAILF(1)

NAME

       tailf - follow the growth of a log file

SYNOPSIS

       tailf [OPTION] file

DESCRIPTION

       tailf will print out the last 10 lines of a file and then wait for the file to grow.  It is similar to tail -f but does not access the file
       when it is not growing.	This has the side effect of not updating the access time for the file, so a filesystem flush does not occur  peri-
       odically when no log activity is happening.

       tailf is extremely useful for monitoring log files on a laptop when logging is infrequent and the user desires that the hard disk spin down
       to conserve battery life.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -n, --lines=N, -N
	      output the last N lines, instead of the last 10.

AUTHOR

       This program was originally written by Rik Faith (faith@acm.org) and may be freely distributed under the  terms	of  the  X11/MIT  License.
       There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program.

       The latest inotify based implementation was written by Karel Zak (kzak@redhat.com).

SEE ALSO

       tail(1), less(1)

AVAILABILITY

       The tailf command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

								 13 February 2003							  TAILF(1)