How do I download linux
 

I want to download Linux for my pc

Do it. What's stopping you?

Enjoy! http://distrowatch.com/
You'll be spoiled for choice.
jdk

I am a newbie myself. Actually I started about a month or so ago but I do most of the stuff on weekends only, because I have a job unrelated to what I am doing here. Well, I had some suggestion before I installed Linux. They came in a form of a close friend who had Oracle Virtual Box installed in Windows 8 OS and Ubuntu (Linux) OS as a guest OS on top of it. I know for a fact that this man does pretty serious jobs in this environment. I do have Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. First I tried to install VB in WinSer - that went OK but when I tried to install Ubuntu in VB it failed multiple times, so I switched to my Wind 7, installed VB and then Ubuntu. Everything was hunky dory.

then download a iso
What is stopping you

but just downloading is not going to do you any good.
you need to install the Operating System.
for that
why not do your own RESEARCH !!!
and learn something !

I wouldn't do an installation without first spending some time with a live distro on a bootable CD, DVD, or USB flash drive; these run without any alteration to your hard drive.

I would almost say for anyone interested in becoming a sysadmin try CentOS first instead of Ubuntu. The install process and configuration process is much more what you'd find in Enterprise Linux that many companies are using. Second would be OpenSuse (since SLES commercial version is widely used around the world according to SLES marketing)

While I'll admit, I thought that was true when I started getting serious about learning linux ...it doesn't seem to be true:

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Using a simplistic "statistic" such as web server usage and extrapolating that to overall corporate usage is inaccurate.


For example, previous company I worked for the website(s) ran on one Windows server (don't ask!) but the main line of business applications ran on ~30 RHEL servers that weren't public facing. Current company we would have under 10 public facing web servers (CentOS/apache) but have (at the last count) roughly 100 CentOS servers that aren't public facing.


Interestingly I took a look a little deeper at the graph you use. According to your source of the "Unix" O/S usage they state that 40.8% of the sites they have identified as using Unix they have no further data on, and even of the 57% they have identified as using Linux they have no further data on 16% of these.


Oh, and don't get me started on the fact they use the famously inaccurate and skewable "Alexa" to decide on their sampling source. :)

Member Response
 

Hi,

Welcome to LQ!
Your OS icon shows that you are currently running MS Win/7. Distrowatch.com is a good place to select or download a ISO image.

If you look to the right of your LQ window you will find Download Linux. You can get an ISO image from LQ. You can use the following utilities;
To verify the downloaded image before burning image;
To burn the ISO image you can use;A LiveOS is a good way to test drive a particular Gnu/Linux. Most can be downloaded to burn to a CD to creat a LiveCD or create a LiveUSB boot;Hope this helps you!

^^ Great post.



And of course there is always the linux chooser:

http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/in...lect_lang=true