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sam:
Freespire

Freespire is a community-driven, Linux-based operating system that combines the best that free, open source software has to offer (community driven, freely distributed, open source code, etc.), but also provides users the choice of including proprietary codecs, drivers and applications as they see fit. With Freespire, the choice is yours as to what software is installed on your computer, with no limitations or restrictions placed on that choice. How you choose to maximize the performance of your computer is entirely up to you.

See here: LINK

sam:
Kororaa and a live version

What's different?

For Kororaa we wrote an install script to go along with our install method which takes care of most of the manual configuring required under the Gentoo method; The Kororaa build is derived from Bob P's Stage 1/3 install method; Further interesting reads:

Kororaa Homepage - LINK
Kororaa live CD has Linux quivering - LINK
The Live CD - LINK
Test drive: Kororaa - LINK

I'm yet to use this but it looks spectacular and I can't wait to give it a go at the weekend.

Edit:
I finally got around to playing with it, wow!

Do you want a linux distribution that looks good and by looks good I mean great! It has that Mac OS X feel to it. Xgl looks so nice! I suggest you go get the LiveCD then within 5 minutes you will be enjoying a treat of the this new technology! kororaa is great. I think I may have to install it on my laptop.  It's free and doesn't take any knowledge or much effort!

sam:
On the LDP are probably the best guides on how to do most things with Linux. Take a look at:

http://www.tldp.org/guides.html

For newcomers to Linux I would highly recomend reading Introduction to Linux - http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

mistybear:

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There are too many to choose from.


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Does that mean even I could do it. :?

sam:
yes indeed... if you know how to burn an iso cd, i.e. nero and then can stick a cd in a drive... type kororaa when it asks you which option to boot and yep with a few minutes patience (but I guess you have that with windows booting anyway!) you are away!

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