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174 lines
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HTML
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>What do you need?</TITLE
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NAME="GENERATOR"
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
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REL="HOME"
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TITLE="Introduction to Linux"
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TITLE="Introduction"
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TITLE="Copyright information"
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HREF="intro_07.html"><LINK
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TITLE="Conventions used in this document"
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>Introduction to Linux: </TH
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>Prev</A
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>Introduction</TD
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NAME="intro_08"
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></A
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>8. What do you need?</H1
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>You will require a computer and a medium containing a Linux distribution. Most of
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this guide applies to all Linux distributions - and UNIX in general. Apart from
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time, there are no further specific requirements.</P
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><P
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>The <A
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HREF="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO/"
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TARGET="_top"
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> Installation
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HOWTO</A
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> contains helpful information on how to obtain Linux software and
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install it on your computer. Hardware requirements and coexistence with other
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operating systems are also discussed.</P
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><P
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>CD images can be downloaded from <A
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HREF="http://www.linux-iso.com/"
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TARGET="_top"
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> linux-iso.com</A
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> and many other locations, see <A
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HREF="app1.html"
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>Appendix A</A
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>.</P
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><P
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>An interesting alternative for those who don't dare to take the step of an actual
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Linux installation on their machine are the Linux distributions that you can run
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from a CD, such as the <A
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HREF="http://www.knoppix.com/"
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TARGET="_top"
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> Knoppix</A
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> distribution.</P
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>Prev</A
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>Copyright information</TD
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>Conventions used in this document</TD
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