Hello everyone!

I am looking for a distro of Linux that can easily boot with XP (already installed on my comp). I'm not sure, but I think the XP partition already takes up the entire hard drive, so any distro that could make the transition to dual booting easy, and a distro that is simple for new users like myself.

I used to have a computer with NO windows on it, and I started with Fedora Core 3 and moved to Slackware 10.2

But now that XP is on the PC, I am just wondering if this may become more complicated.

Here is my computer hardware:
AMD 64 3000+ Processor
1GB RAM
200GB SATA I Hard Drive
Netgear MA111 Wireless USB Adapter (This is REALLY important that it work)

I am willing to pay for the distro if it means better performance!

Thank you

Newbie-friendly distros that are capable of resizing Windows partitions and using the new space for the distro are SUSE and Ubuntu (and its "sister" Kubuntu). If you are considering SUSE, I recommend version 10.0--and the retail version would be a little better since it includes support and a thick users guide. The new release 10.1 is having "teething" problems and is best avoided in the short term. New versions of both Ubuntu and Kubuntu are being released on June 1 ("Dapper" v. 6.06) and I would recommend them if you are looking for something free. (I have used the Kubuntu release candidate and it is fine, so even though they will be new, I suspect that you will not encounter any unexpected headaches.) One last comment: if you are wireless, SUSE 10.0 handles that more effectively than the other two.

Thanks very much for the response Cogar I am thinking of probably going for Suse, but do you have an answer to this thread I've posted here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=449643

Thanks

You got it.

If you've been using Fedora or Slackware and like either one, it shouldn't be too complicated to setup a dual boot. The trickiest thing in slack would be to create new partitions since it's purely text-based, I don't know anything about fedora. It may be easier to use a liveCD like knoppix that has a gui partitioner if you don't want to deal with text based partitioning.

If you do feel like experimenting with new distros, it seems like cogar has given you decent advice already.

Well as a teacher told me; Fedora is a great distro to learn with, but is terrible otherwise. Slackware is nice but has a steep learning curve (like the BSDs). If you want a distro that is really user friendly I'd say pick up SuSE (version 10+). I've been using it sense 9.1 and it's been really a nice to use.

Why not just stick with what you know? Unless you really want to switch distros that is.

Use a LiveCD like the Gparted LiveCD to partition your drive. i just used it today to partition my drive that has XP on it and it was very easy.