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I know, I know! I should have at least tried Linux by now. But I hadn’t. Then I found this book. Among all of the books on Linux at the book store, this one said, here’s seven different distributions of Linux that you can install. Furthermore, in Chapter 4 it had 35 pages describing the different distributions. Why, for instance, would I want to install Xandros, Mandriva or SuSE instead of the Fedora (Red Hat) core. (Although I did find it a little strange that Debian wasn’t discussed. But with 300+ distributions to choose from you have to cut it off somewhere.)

Although this is a ‘For Dummies’ book, it isn’t for the complete ‘Dummy.’ You should have some idea about setting your BIOS to boot from DVD, some idea about what particians are (or use an old PC and dedicate it to Linux - recommended) and so on.

Finally this book is primarily concerned with the operating system itself. Linux comes with tons of applications programs. If you want to learn about Open Office or other packages, that’s a different book. But in learning about the operating system, not bad at all.
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