-  booting from a CD

- starting from DOS

-  or even using actual 3.5 or even 5 1/4 inch older format floppy discs

now with more modern , more up to date and powerful computers the options have increased with the advent of integrated powered USB drives.

As well the actual size of the installation program and programs have increased greatly in size , functions and overall complexity.

Wit these powered USB hubs, and the wrath of new available media , that has also come down vastly in price while increasing exponentially in sizes have increased the options of boot devices for installs as well as the overall Linux install convenience.   These include – flash drives , external cd/dvd drives to a great degree ( if will work when powered up and attached to the booting computer- not all seem to be supported , there does not seem to a CD/ DVD reader standard for this ) , flash drives , other flash memory formats such as SD and “Flash ” cards if a reader is built into the computer or a usb based convertor available, and external USB hard drives , or even other hard drives attached to the IDE or Sata connectors on the  computer motherboards.

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Of course the correct or appropriate boot device must be chosen in the bios of the computer on which the Linux distro is to be installed.

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In the case of Linux and your career with the Linux operating system it may well be true that you are setting up a computer system simply to learn Linux and become proficient in the Linux operating system and it operations and functions.

Generally it can be said that to run fairly simple , standard word processing and spread sheet application software your requirements may be almost minimal with today’s powerful computers with the new high end core duo CPUs and ddr2 ram.  Still your package may be more minimal – an older system that someone recently upgraded from.

On the other side of the fence if you are doing serious number crunching – 3d graphic applications , the latest games or calculating ballistic missile trajectories you will need greater amounts of computer hardware support than a simple , older Pentium or Pentium 2 computer.

If your needs are slight then you can even find stripped down versions of Linux can run only a single 1.4  mb floppy disk.

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Since its release in 1991 the original version of Linux has been constantly modified and improved – both by Mr. Torvalds himself and by a large number of computer software programmers worldwide who help maintain and update new releases of the Linux core – its operating kernel  on a regular basis.

Every new version of Linux is mde available free-of-charge on the internet for anyone to download.  Although this “official”  version is regularily updated anyone is free to make changes to the kernel without fear of litigation because Linux is an open source software.  The reverse holds true as well- any changes and improvement made to the software must be made freely available to others.

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