There are different flavors of Linux distributions ... Fedora, SUSE, Mandriva, Slackware ... the list goes on and on. Around a year back, a South African upstart company called Canonical, founded by the multimillionaire and space tourist Mark Shuttleworth created a new Linux distribution. They named it Ubuntu Linux. In African language, Ubuntu means 'Humanity to others'. They not only succeeded in creating a robust distribution based on Debian but also decided that they will distribute the CDs free of cost.
If you want a few CDs, just visit shipit.ubuntu.org, create an account and place an order for the free CDs. You can order any number of them for your use as well as passing over to friends and acquaintances. Ubuntu Linux has quickly grown to have a wide user base and excellent support. It is a distribution basically targeted at the desktop user. But recently a separate server version has also been released.
Ubuntu Linux comes with a enhanced text based installer which is claimed to be very easy to use. I came across this excellent step-by-step tutorial called - Ubuntu Dual Boot - which gives a very clear description about how to install Ubuntu Linux on your machine along side with Windows OS, which I would recommend to everyone who are interested in Ubuntu. It also has all the screen shots of the installer which makes installing this distribution a cake walk. Even though, I have installed Linux (though not Ubuntu) numerous times in the past, I was able to clarify a few of my doubts about partitioning by reading this tutorial.
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