Installing Gnome on Redhat Linux or Win XP?

Question

Guys,i am new to Linux/Unix and Gnome,Can i install Gnome over win XP or it is only for Linux.I have Linux Redhat 9 running on one machine.How to install Gnome,do i have to download it from website directly on Linux machine?

Answer 1

GNOME is a Linux Desktop Environment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME



Redhat is a Linux distro.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat



If you wanted to take a look at Linux I recommend a LiveCD.



There are two worth taking an immediate look at being Linux Mint 6 and Ubuntu 9.04



Linux is now in a position of offering a viable alternative to proprietary platforms and more than capable of offering a full desktop experience.



Install or RUN IT LIVE !



Linux Mint 6 Release notes

http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_felicia.php

Ubuntu 9.04 Release notes

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyJackalope/TechnicalOverview



Linux Mint 6 Download

http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=31

Ubuntu 9.04 Download

http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/9.04/



If you like either of them



Linux Mint 6 installation tutorial

http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-linux-mint-6-felicia

Ubuntu 8.10 installation tutorial (also applies to Ubuntu 9.04)

http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-ubuntu-8.10



You download the ISO. image of either Linux Mint 6 or Ubuntu 9.04 then you need to create a Bootable CD from the ISO. This can easily be done using Nero Burning ROM or similar software. Linux Mint 6 and Ubuntu 9.04 can also be run straight from the LiveCD you have created without touching your Hard Drive.



Screenshot of my custom LiveDVD of Mint 6 running Beryl 0.2.1

http://s266.photobucket.com/albums/ii256/Linux_Ubuntu_geek/?action=view¤t=Screenshot-1.png

Screenshot of my custom LiveDVD of Ubuntu 9.04 running Beryl 0.2.1

http://s266.photobucket.com/albums/ii256/Linux_Ubuntu_geek/?action=view¤t=Screenshot.png



Remember you can RUN IT LIVE !



LUg.

Answer 2

There are two choices. As the other guy said, there is "wubi" which installs linux as a virtual machine and you basically run linux as a program within windows. Personally, I feel this undersells the system because it is artificially slow. Try out a live cd first (it'll boot and run off of a cd/dvd without being installed) to decide if you want to go that route. There are lots of instructions online on how to install a system to dual boot windows and the actual installers are pretty good about it (no harder than installing XP in the first place and more user friendly in some cases.) From personal experience I'd make sure you defrag your harddisk first and have a really good chunk of hard disk space/a second drive to install on. I'd also use a windows repartitioning tool since linux is still not great at shrinking windows drives.

Answer 3

Sorry -Gnome is really intended for Unix and Particularly Linux distributions.



You might consider the LIVE-CDs of, say, Ubuntu, as suggested above.



Windows, for better or for worse, very much connects the kernel to the windowing software. For UNIX and Linux, the windowing software is, from the kernel's point of view, just an application.

Answer 4

You cannot install gnome on windows.

These sites might help install gnome on red hat.

Good luck