Originally posted by: Robroy11976
Ic, i've tried knoppix i think 2 years ago, i only last about 10 mins

since i don't know how to operate it. I've tried using it media player and i can't link them to my mp3s inside my harddisk, or should i say i don't how to mount it. Is Redhat the easiest to learn OS? What is Fedora? You mean it can run thru a software called VMWare?
Try knoppix again. Linux has always been improving at a rapid rate.
You probably will have to learn a bit about mounting harddrives and using the command line if you want to use Linux. But it's not something that is bad.. it's a good thing. The command line rocks.
Fedora Core is the no-cost community-targetted operating system from Redhat. They put advanced features in Fedora, test them, get it so that users have the newest stuff, then when it's known to be stable they sell it in their commercial product along with support services.
VMWare is a machine emulator. It doesn't realy emulate a machine so much as it provides fake drivers and hardware resources so that you can run one Operating system inside of another one. So you can run Windows in windows, windows in linux, linux in windows, linux in linux, and all other variations. It's a commercial product though.
There is a colinux that allows you to run Linux in Windows, but it's mainly for things like web developers.