Ubuntu is very recommend for beginners, especially because of the Debian package manager. Not everything will work out of the box, but for the most things you will find.deb (Debiaqn package) somewhere. And even if you run in trouble, the Ubuntu community is great for beginners, as I heard and read you can get an answer to every question without being labeled as "n00b" in every second post. Well, good thing I have a FAT32 partition for Ubuntu, so I'll have no NTFS worries. So I looked at the download page.. if I'm on an Intel Pentium 4 file system, what ISO do I want to download? http://mirror.cs.umn.edu/ubuntu-releases/5.10/ You need x86/i386. Ah, what's the difference between the Live version vs. Install version? Oh and, is there any tutorials available (link please) to install Linux on a FAT32 partition?