skulspike92

right now I installed Ubuntu and I'm gonna fool around with this for a little and try out Gentoo for a little bit after I mess around with this *EDIT* The system is now a dell inspiron 1520 laptop and not the pentium 4 system Also, are there any programs or books that will help me out in learning code?

so is ubuntu and gentoo the 2 main os's that I should look at and see what fits me? or should I also look into FreeBSD and personally, I am one of those people that wonder... why does this work? and how does it work? and want to take these things apart like you were saying about Gentoo cabster

ok I'll check those out... Im gonna look at your link cabster and also consider Fedora Getntoo and Ubuntu. Im gonna look up which is more user friendly to people who know nothing like me. And yea this is just going to be another comp in my basement that will be used for some web surfing when I'm bored and my bro is on this comp. BTW the Linux based comp will be a Pentium 4 dual core at 3.2 ghz with 1gb ddr3 ram, might upgrade to 2/4 if i get some spear money. Also, right now on my windows comp its a i7 960 @ 3.8 with 12gb DDR3 ram with a 5870and gigabyte UD5 MB

So, I have a lot of free time and and old computer and want to try out a version of linux and try to learn some code of some programs and make sense of all the things I hear about on the show, and be able to do it. My question is, what version of linux should I download on this old computer? Also, what are some programs that are easy to learn code for. I will probably get the book "program name" for dummies, and youtube a bunch of videos about this program to try and make sense of it. Also, if you know any website that has useful help on these programs, listing them won't hurt any.