As you may have seen on the DaniWeb homepage, Linspire is currently available for free. I took the opportunity to review it, so you can read my thoughts on it here (http://www.tuxtalk.org)

I also tried Kubuntu, and it is good. But I prefer Ubuntu, because I don't like the KDE Desktop that much. IMO it is too bloated. Because Kubuntu and Ubuntu share the same package repository, if you...

This is a great guide, fragmented_user. I would also like to recommend a LiveCD.

Ubuntu
URL: http://www.ubuntulinux.org
Description: This is my favourite distro, which also has a LiveCD...

Yeah, the problem with Slack is that it uses LILO. LILO doesn't handle dual-booting that well. You should be able to install GRUB easily though.

In the section of the Gentoo handbook about setting up the bootloader, there is an explanation on how to do this. As percent20 said, you simply point the bootloader (most likely GRUB) to the...

I tried Linspire a while back, and I thought it was appaling. They are almost as bas as M$, making you pay for software, that on all other distros is free. OK, I would maybe use it if you didn't have...

Hi,

For desktop Linux, I would recommend Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntulinux.org). I use it as my primary operating system, and all my hardware worked first time, without me having to configure...