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A high percentage of netbooks currently ship with Linux.  Often Windows XP is offered as an addition sister product as an OS.  For these laptops or mini laptops aka netbooks since the products were originally designed for Linux they are excellent Linux platforms and for those who wish to learn Linux they are excellent practice  and learning devices.  Interstingly given the opportunity most non Linux computer users might never notice the difference overall versus Windows.  They can go online , they can play solitaire , they can write letters and do spreadsheets with open office , online with firefox , there are both wireless Wi Fi equipped as well as an ethernet lan , they have a messenger service aka Microsoft or Yahoo Messenger  and even a webcam.  They are well equipped both with USB ports , and 2 sd card slots for extra storeage capabilities.

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Its an interesting concern and viewpoint – seeing Linux only from a marketing and profit version – almost as if it Coca Cola vs Pepsi or the pharmaceutical industry.  What drives linux , its evoltion and immovatons ,  product development is users . The Red Hat Linux companyay derive most of its dollars from server side sales and support.  Yet it akin to the automotive industry – that if there are not entry level models for users and buyers to become familiar then they are going to start , grow and stay with another product.

The desktop versions of Linux serve that purpose.  After all how many computer users have a physical commercial server at their beck and call with which to learn and become famuliar with the Linux Operating System , only as a server utilization.

Linux has achieved success on servers, but can it make a go of it on the desktop? Panelists at a technical conference Tuesday evening debated the question, with a Red Hat official wondering whether the issue is even relevant anymore.

Representatives from organizations such as Red Hat, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and Fidelity Information Services offered perspectives on Linux and open source on the desktop during a session at the InfoWorld Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) in San Francisco. The session was entitled “End Users and Linux: Do We Have a Participation Problem?”.

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Red Hat’s CEO Jim Whitehurst pointed out several issues with running Linux on the desktop, including financial concerns the company has as a Linux vendor.

“First of all, I don’t know how to make money on it,” Whitehurst said. “Very few people are running a desktop that’s mission-critical,” so they do not want to pay the company for a desktop OS, he said.

There is some money in the Linux desktop, but not much, Whitehurst said. “We do have a desktop [version of Linux], but we typically sell it to big server customers who want some desktops.” Red Hat offers its Red Hat Enterprise Desktop product, but Whitehurst added he was uncertain how relevant the desktop itself will be in five years, with the advent of concepts such as cloud-based and smartphone computing and VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure).

“The concept of a desktop is kind of ridiculous in this day and age,” said Whitehurst. “I’d rather think about skating to where the puck is gong to be than where it is now,” he said, using a hockey analogy.

Interoperability issues also are a hindrance, according to Whitehurst. “There’s a reason Microsoft doesn’t want to certify Evolution [a Linux mail client] hooking into [Microsoft's mail server] Exchange,” he said. Microsoft has key control points locked up on the desktop, he said,

“There’s a desire [to use desktop Linux] but practicality sets in,” said panelist Vinod Kutty, associate director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. “There are significant barriers to switching.”

Even Linux developers he has known prefer a Macintosh to a Linux desktop, Kutty said.

Another panelist, Timothy Golden, senior vice president for Unix engineering, security, and provisioning at Bank of America, concurred with Whitehurst. “I have to agree with Jim on this one,” he said. How people view the desktop is going to change, said Whitehurst.

But another panelist, K.S. Bhaskar, senior vice president of Fidelity Information Services, gave a thumbs-up to Linux on the desktop, adding that his family even uses it at home.

“I kicked the Windows habit 10 years ago,” Bhaskar said. “In the group that I have at work, Linux is our primary desktop that we’ve been using since 2000,” he said.

An industry analyst in the audience agreed with the panel’s skepticism toward desktop Linux. “I think they’re right, there are barriers to adoption,” said analyst Tim Clark, partner at The FactPoint Group.

Earlier in the day, Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian was optimistic about Linux on the desktop, particularly on netbooks.

Panelists also discussed topics such as whether the economic downturn was good for open source. The downturn has benefitted open source because it gets people to try new things, Whitehurst said. Many new projects are getting done on Linux, he said.

Prior to the panel session, Whitehurst gave a speech proclaiming the economic situation as a “fantastic time for open source.”

“I almost feel bad,” because open source software proponents profit from other people’s misery,” Whitehurst said. In tough economic times, “people get out of their comfort zone,” he said. Companies that would never have considered open source are now looking at Red Hat, said Whitehurst. He added a significant chunk of Red Hat’s revenue has come from Unix to Linux conversions.

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Older less demanding versions of  Linux distros are readily available in newsgroups and online.  These are either referred to as “older version” , “archived editions”  or “legacy” versions.

The questions becomes – what are the hardware requirements of these older Linux versions.  In most cases you will want to start your Linux career with what used to be referred to as the “WIZIWIG’ graphical interface now known in a standard fashion as a GUI ( Graphic User Interface)  and to what most people  and computer uses now know and use as either the Microsoft Windows Line of products – Windows 95 , 98 , ME , 2000 , XP and now the newest version of this OS line – Microsoft Vista.  Or you may be familiar with the Apple Macintosh operatins system – Mac OS 6 all the way up to the current Mac OS X in its various forms.  The key is that by using a Graphic User Interface – the GUI – your life is easier – well at least for learning Linux.  You just point and click at images on your computer screen to make things happen.  The inner workings of Linux – with its typed or keyboarded commands are still there under the surface.  You just are shielded from them.  Later on as you become proficient you may want to learn the direct typed computer commands in Linux. Linux is a most powerful computer language.  Knowing the actual commands makes Linux a most verstaile and powerful operatins system.  You may want to learn Linux by command line rather than the windowed environment.  If you do that is a good thing.  However the commands may not be familar to you in any way and manner .  Further if you do not type exactly right and correctly – in the right order and in the right syntax nothing will happen for the most part from your computer commands.  You will just be dead in the water so to speak and frustrated as well.

While it is possible to install really older verisons of Linux on what might be called “primitive computer hardware” – such as 386 and 486 with 8 or 16 mbs of ram , this is not generally recommended.  If you want to run the GUI setups of Linux you will need more a more powerful setup.   It can be done on a Pentium ( first generation of the current Intel Pentium line of computers).  What will be referred to as a “Pentium”  computer is first generation Pentium computer , which the computer chip maker Intel , introduced in 1993.  Pentium computers run up to speeds of 200 Mhz.  As time went on later and more powerful computers were released as the Pentium 2 , 3 and 4.  Generally a later number of Pentium computer will be faster than a previous number.  For example a Pentium 3 will generally beat out any Pentium 2 comptuer in speed and power.   There is a second computer chip maker – AMD, as well as Intel in the computer CPU chip marketplace.  For the most part , in terms of your early Linux career, either Intel or AMD processors are equivalent and interchangeable for you , for all intensive purposes.  The point for you is to get the most current and powerful computer if you want to learn Linux with a GUI.  A newer computer will handle the graphics better , may allow or even require a newer version of your chosen Linux distro , and overall will be much faster and easier for you to start your Linux career with.

Lastly to install Linux you will need a working CD Rom (CD burners and dvd optical drives will do as well) , and  a Linux supported video graphics card.

Used computers are like a used sailboat.  The previous owner most likely paid a fair bit for the device , knows it is worth much less on the marketplace and overall just wants their older or previous computer to go to someone who can make good use of it and enjoy what was their older computer and its hardware.

By installing and learning Linux on an older , even throw away PC computer , you may well be rescuing the computer from a fate in a landfill.   Well at least for now.

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Linux will run a large number of programs concurrently

2) Sharing with other computer operating systems

Linux , can coexist on the same computer as other operating systems.  As an example you can choose to multi or dual boot.  For example the same computer can be setup to have either Microsoft Windows / Microsoft Vista or Linux on the very same computer

3) Developer tools

Linux is bundled with a wealth of computer software development tools for programmers whether that on the particular installed distro , online or in book form.  Your distro of choice will come bundled with a number of software development tools which may include Perl, Python or C++ tools

4) Networking

Linux provides more than the ideal environment to run web as well as FTP servers.  Linux’s history is that its origins delve back to the UNIX operating systems .  Networking capabilities are more than excellent and exceptional in depth and breadth.

5) Modular

Because Linux itself i based on intrinsic modules it can be stripped down from its most sophisticated forms , which require tens of gigabytes of hard drive space to run from just a solitary single floppy disk

6) Security

Linux is more than highly regarded for its security features.  Only the security administrator is allowed to make system level changes.   System level changes may include such events and practices as installing or uninstalling software, changing passwords as well as making changes to individual’s access privileges .  In addition at present linux is more free of viral , computer viruses , spyware, malware and greyware threats.

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