hello hi actually i dn't knw who u r hve heard a lot bout u though and ur from? TEE got ur id frm nishant ohk i remember u posting in the linux forums yup well if i hve networking problems nay i ask u here ?? sure i guess i shud spare u frm my questions for the first day:) :D ok, not that i'd mind no re next time...hey temme is ubuntu linux a good vergion for beginners? for absolute beginners coming from windows, knoppix would be the easiest place to start but if u're prepared to put some effort in getting to know linux, then ubuntu is great ok thn i guess i wud start with that..i hve both actually..but very scared f partioning :) its only scary the first time knoppix doesnt need paritioning, u know that right? nope!! it doesn't? u just have to boot from the CD... no installation required live cd u mean?? yup u can install it later (after creating a partition) if u want i dn't want live cd..it doesn't hve c c+ and other utilites knoppix live cd does have all of that ohh it has! atleast the new versions i have ne basic advantages f linux?? stability, almost no fear of viruses/trojans hey thn can i install on vmware? of course ok thnx np hey arijit what is the link for the forum? its http://beam.to/crceforum there doesn't seem to be ne activity since a long time yeah true... abhshek & i'd planned to add some new tricks each week will start that soon (as college reopens) when did u start learning computers...u have an amazing knowledge? its just a matter of interest really got my first comp in 9th std hey do u really use this id of urs on hotmail as told to me by nishant yeah, why? better to have a single ID across IM networks right? ohh ok..well he was sayin that u use ur yahoo id on hotmail yep oooohhhhhhhhhhh..........ok MSN accepts any email address, not just hotmail MSN messger? yeah, MSN network... other messenger clients can connect to MSN too some messengers can connect to yahoo, msn, etc at the same time like trillian yeah but yaho mesger and msn mesger are for their own purposes naa..like yahoo supports only yahoo and msn only hotmail and msn yes ok