Looking over at my shelf I can see, gOS Rocket and on the cover disks of several magazines. Live disks are included with every Linux distribution, and are also provided on the cover of just about any computing and PC magazine. The disadvantage is that the OS will run fairly slowly and you will not get much idea of the performance or flexibility of Linux. This is perhaps the best way you can try Linux for the first time as it allows you to play around with the OS without having to worry about your data, or partitioning or screwing something up.
These live systems are full versions of the operating system that run completely from the given medium.‘, a disk which will run Linux straight from the CD as if it were an installed operating system. Linux on a ‘Live Disk’ Each distribution can now be downloaded as a ‘ Recently, Live DVDs and Live USB have cropped up as well. Here’s three ways you can install Linux on your computer.
Linux has never before been so easy to try.
OK so Linux still has a market share closer to 1.5%. Advertisement Linux is for geeks right? And you gotta know command prompts and all that stuff yeah? Not exactly, in fact that kind of image is starting to fade away somewhat as Linux distros such as Ubuntu gain traction and mind share with each new release.