> As a starting point, I think it will be a good idea to play around with
> a "Linux live CD", as Knoppix
> (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html), for example. It is a
> bootable CD that puts your computer running Linux without having to mess
> with your hard disk, repartitioning, installing a non familiar OS...
> It's just a matter of downloading an ISO CD image, burning it to a CD

Gentoo Linux also has such an image: http://www.gentoo.org/
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