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punky · 06-05-2004, 14:50

I had a lot of trouble getting generic hardware devices working in RH (on board sound on generic MB/generic modem/lan card), but a friend of mine recommended Suse for good hardware compatibility.

What you really want to use is what is called a "Live" cd. Basically it is a copy of Linux on a CD. You boot into it, and you can use Linux straight away without having to create partitions, install it, etc, and you can just take the disk out and boot back into windows. Perfect for seeing if you like Linux without changing your system at all. Suse do a live CD too.

06-05-2004, 14:50	#7
punky Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Age: 45 Posts: 14,750	Re: making the jump to linux I had a lot of trouble getting generic hardware devices working in RH (on board sound on generic MB/generic modem/lan card), but a friend of mine recommended Suse for good hardware compatibility. What you really want to use is what is called a "Live" cd. Basically it is a copy of Linux on a CD. You boot into it, and you can use Linux straight away without having to create partitions, install it, etc, and you can just take the disk out and boot back into windows. Perfect for seeing if you like Linux without changing your system at all. Suse do a live CD too.