Strider's Linux Site!

I love the Linux operating system, but it can be such a serious pain to install, especially the partitioning of the hard drive. So I thought it might be useful if there was a place you could go to find Linux builds, and info about them, that did not require you to be a rocket scientist to get it running on your machine.

The Focus of this Page is Linux you can run on your system, without risking your WinDoze install. Or your MAC install, if that is your system of choice. There are 2 main ways to go about this:

   1) Partionless HardDrive Installs
   2) Bootable CDs

They each have advantages and disadvantages. I will go through them on each subpage, for each program. Or at least as far as I understand them, which should get you started. After that, it is up to you! LOL...

  In general, an OS you boot from a CD-ROM requires you to have high-speed disk access to the CD, or a great deal of patience. Any 48x CD or better should be just fine, but anything less than that and you may have to wait a bit until the system comes up. Also, even at that speed, each program you launch needs to decompress from the CD and install into RAM in order to run. Which means, as an example, when you launch a Web Browser it might take a few minutes to start, but going to web pages will be as fast as usual.

Partitionless installs have the software already installed and decompressed on your hard drive, so when you launch that same web browser it will come up very quickly. The main issue with Partitionless installs is operator error; if you are not used to Linux, you can hose the entire OS while trying to make a few simple changes. That is easy to recover from; just uninstall and reinstall the Linux system. At that point, you can start from scratch.