Recently acquired a relatively new HP Netbook for free. It came with Windows 7 Starter on it which i must say, runs terribly. There seems to be a lot of knowledgeable Linux users on this forum so I figured someone could help me.
I'm just looking for a lightweight distro that will run relatively quickly and stable. Worth mentioning that i have no real experience with Linux so something i can learn from and tinker with would be good.
Any suggestions or advice would be great! Thanks guys.
Torrent it, that will perform an MD5 check on the file(s). MD5 is a hashing function which, when used on a file, creates a string of characters specific to that file. If one bit of that file were to change, the string would be totally different. It is used to check if a file that you downloaded has been corrupted. Hashing functions are "one-way" or "trapdoor" functions that even if you know the expression of the function and the output (in our case, the string associated with a healthy, non-corrupt, file), you cannot deduce the input (the file itself). They are used to store and check passwords in linux, for example.
I can't comment about LinuxLive USB Creater, I've only used it once (and it worked).
Once you switch to linux there are other, easier and more transparent ways to burn an iso file.