help please...with moving to linux

[bwid_s_01]

ok...i've had more than enough of windows....time for linux! However my move to Linux will be slow because I have a very busy schedule. So the 1st part of my move is to learn linux without installing it. Thats why I have 2 questions:

1. Which Linux version(s) is the one that I can install IN Windows so that I can learn it as a regular program. And I don't mean using something like Virtual PC to install a Linux version in a virtual computer in Windows. I mean I think I heard of a Linux version that's installed right into Windows. So I need to know what it's called and where I can download it.

2. Also I would like to know which linux version is one whose ISO is burned to a CD and can be booted into a bootable linux enviornment without having to actually install it on the hard drive.

Thanks

[mobrien_12]

I think you are confused with point #1.  There are versions which can be installed into the windows fs, like phat linux.  Linux is an operating system, you don't run it as a program in windows.

However, there is a system called cygwin which puts a unix-like layer onto windows. Maybe thats what you are thinking about.  It sounds the closest to your description.

For #2, you are talking about knoppix.

[ August 24, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

[Stryker]

quote:Originally posted by M. O'Brien:
I think you are confused with point #1.  There are versions which can be installed into the windows fs, like phat linux.  Linux is an operating system, you don't run it as a program in windows.

However, there is a system called cygwin which puts a unix-like layer onto windows. Maybe thats what you are thinking about.  It sounds the closest to your description.

For #2, you are talking about knoppix.

[ August 24, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

#1 is just a command line though

[WaWAR_FA]

redhat 7.1 came with a linux4win install option.

ran under windows. (just dont ask me how it did that)

[suselinux]

This is a list of "CD Based" Linux Distrobutions

web page

This list has the names, a link to an overview including download links.

SuSE Linux 8.2 Live eval

[ August 24, 2003: Message edited by: suselinux ]