{"id":83,"date":"2009-12-31T22:32:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T03:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/?p=83"},"modified":"2009-12-31T22:32:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T03:32:33","slug":"download-a-distro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/get-linux\/download-a-distro","title":{"rendered":"Download a distro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linux Operating systems or “distros” are available for download from a variety of sources.\u00a0 When downloading a distro, I usually go to distrowatch.com.<\/a> At other times I go to the project’s website; for example: Linux Mint<\/a>, Crunchbang<\/a>, and Ubuntu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why go to distrowatch?\u00a0 It’s an easy name to type into a web browser.\u00a0 It lets you search by distribution name and takes you to the “project page” for that distro\u2014where you can get details about the distro\u2014such as country of origin, which releases\/editions are available, what software\/applications are included, the default desktop manager, and more.<\/p>\n

When your download is complete, you should verify your download before you burn the .iso file<\/strong> to a CD or DVD.\u00a0 Verification<\/strong> is the process where you compare the md5 hash of your downloaded .iso with the expected md5 hash published at the website where you downloaded the .iso from.<\/p>\n

There are a few ways to verify a .iso file.\u00a0 In linux, issue the command md5sum<\/strong> [path-to-iso-file]<\/em> and press ENTER<\/strong>.\u00a0 For Mac OS-X, follow these instructions<\/a>.\u00a0 Lastly, in MS Windows, follow these instructions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After verifying the download, burn the .iso to a CD\/DVD.\u00a0 Just make sure that you’re burning a “bootable iso image” (which is different than creating a data CD that includes the .iso file).\u00a0 Most of the good burning software will have the option to “burn an image to disk”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Linux Operating systems are available as iso files for download. When your download is finished you can burn the bootable iso file to CD or DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18,19,17],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-get-linux","tag-cd","tag-distro","tag-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}