Beginners help

[357mag]

I know very little about Linux, but gotta admit I've doing some research on the net and thinking of trying some version of it. Someone told me that most versions of Linux now will work with most hardware and all I gotta do is download and burn the distribution onto a DVD and run it and if it recognizes my hardware then all is fine. But what about software? Where does a person get:

A defragger
An anti-virus
A disk cloning tool
A registry cleaner
A disk cleaner

Do these things come with the distribution or do you have to download them separately? Can you recommend a good version of Linux for a PC? Suse? Red Hat Fedora?

[Backdraft]

Well, I am a relative newb myself, but I can tell you that you dont need an anti-virus (no real Linux viruses) and you dont need a registry cleaner (no registry). Most everything else I am sure you can find somewhere, and the knowledgeable people around here will have a better idea.

[ilja]

Originally Posted by 357mag

A defragger

Linux has a better filesystem, that doesn't need to be defragget, because it has a better management of fragemnts

Originally Posted by 357mag

An anti-virus

There are allmost no viruses for Linux in wild. So no anti-virus is needed at the moment.

Originally Posted by 357mag

A disk cloning tool

try this : http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=29397

Originally Posted by 357mag

A registry cleaner

No registry. There is something that looks like this the gconf-editor, but there is no need to clean it.

Originally Posted by 357mag

A disk cleaner

What do you mean by this?

Originally Posted by 357mag

Do these things come with the distribution or do you have to download them separately? Can you recommend a good version of Linux for a PC? Suse? Red Hat Fedora?

Here a good link : http://www.fedorafaq.org/
especially: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
and http://www.fedorafaq.org/basics/
But some of the packages are on the cd.
You are in the Fedora forum, so we made the decision to use Fedora, and most of us think that it is the best for us and our computer.
One more nice link : http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-l...en/table.shtml

[sailor]

A defragger---NOT NEEDED
An anti-virus---you could use one of sevral free antivirus (especially if you share files with windows machine...Clamav, F-Prot and BitDefender are 3 free scanners available for linux.
A disk cloning tool---I believe there are cloning/ghosting tools, but I am not familiar with them
A registry cleaner---NOT NEEDED
A disk cleaner----NOT NEEDED