[SGVLUG] how to download and install a free linux distribution?

[Bryan Backer via SGVLUG]

Do you want to install it on your hard drive? Or just boot linux to try it
out?

If you want to just try a distro or two, making a 'livecd' image that is
bootable
directly from CD or thumbdrive would probably be a good starting point.
That would let you try out a distro without installing. Once you find one
you
like,  you could then take the next step and install it on your harddrive,
start booting from that.

For instance, at https://wiki.centos.org/Download
if you scroll down to the 'Variety of ISO images' section
you'll see a discussion of a 'livecd' and what that means.
If you see links on that page for 'liveKDE' or 'liveGNOME' they
should be bootable, runnable without installation setups, differing
in their windows manager (KDE vs gnome).

I'd suggest you give those a try, see what you like, then proceed on
to a real install.


A different alternative for testdriving linux distros is the download
virtualbox
and run a VM on your system and try linux within that. That is a great way
to test drive but requires a little more robust hardware.




On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 9:41 AM, qun li via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
wrote:

> Like Ubuntu etc.? My understanding is download the distribution, get it on
> an USB and boot on the computer. Is the downloaded distribution bootable
> without further tingling?
> Any recommendation other than Ubuntu?
>
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