fedora-list Digest, Vol 13, Issue 359

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On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 19:25 -0500, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> 
> I recently got a new computer and I'm going to use my old computer for
> trying out linux and generally experimenting on.  Although I'm
> generally
> pretty handy and able to figure stuff out I have absolutely no
> programming
> or professional computer experience.  Would fedora be way out of my
> league
> or are there other people out there that are just kind of tinkering
> around?
> (This is not a technical question - I'm sure my old computer could
> handle it
> - I'm not sure whether I can.)  And if you think not - is there a good
> beginners' basic linux?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any comments
> 
> Matt 

Not at all, FC 3 is a great place to start.

You may want to try liveCDs also. 

Live CDs are versions of linux that run from CD - you put them in, boot
from CD. When you are done, remove the CD and reboot, and you are back
in Windows. 

Here is a list of LiveCDs: http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

A great one for beginner's can be found here:
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html