On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 20:43 -0500, jacquespotter wrote: > Thanks for the support and I will continue to learn Linux, if not just > for myself. I've recently learned that you can create a partitioned > section for windows and Linux so I will be doing that sometime soon. > That way I can learn and be compatible with all of my clients. > If you have a spare/little used PC that is now too slow to run Windows but can run Linux I think you'd be better off with a two single boot boxes. The RedHat Fedora distro says the minimum spec is a 400 MHz Pentium Pro with 768 MB RAM and 30 GB is enough disk for a pretty full install - my biggest system has 21GB on /home and the rest of the system easily fits in 10GB. You have much more flexibility with two networked boxes - for starters you can run Samba and your Windows PC will treat the Linux box as a Windows server, share printers, use it to back up all the PCs on your network, etc. In any case Linux is a *much* better network OS than Windows and its hard to find out about this without networking it. Martin
