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Getting Started and Choosing a Distro

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Our Getting Started forum is the place for linux newbies to engage in discussions related to geting started with the linux operating system and choosing which distribution to install.

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1	News Story: 100-Core Processor on Tap EddieC (30 Days Ago) linux, multi-core, parallel, performance, processing, smp	30 Days Ago by EddieC	0	2,273
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	A question ostkaka (Sep 24th, 2006)	Oct 4th, 2006 by ostkaka	4	1,537
	Also Ran- Novell Suse Linux 10.0 BILL S (Jan 26th, 2006)	Jun 29th, 2006 by TheNSS	2	1,977
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	Any ideas on a good site for Linux Croft .L (Jun 11th, 2005)	Jul 2nd, 2005 by fragmented_user	4	2,253
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	backtrack 2 bondi007 (May 6th, 2007)	May 15th, 2007 by pygmalion	5	6,733
	Basic scripting question jkristos (Aug 28th, 2005)	Sep 3rd, 2005 by alc6379	1	1,910
	Begginer OS and Installation ( 1 2) Defcon106 (Apr 2nd, 2008)	Jul 10th, 2008 by lilith2k3	12	2,991
	Solved: beginner to unix knowledgelover (May 22nd, 2009)	May 23rd, 2009 by knowledgelover	3	676
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	BIOS cutoff age ? kartik14 (Jul 29th, 2008)	Aug 6th, 2008 by TheNNS	1	1,518
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