I'm wondering if I could run a computer with both Windows XP and Linux, and if possible where is a good place to get Linux and which ones are good since I see so many different kinds. My fulls specs on my computer are: Intel 3.20 GHz 640 160 GB Hard Drive (space used as now I'm using XP) 512x2 PC3200 RAM (making 1 Gig in all) 915P-A ECS Mother Board GeForce4 MX440 (not that great going to get a better video card, this is decent though) DVD Burner CD Burner if needed anymore information I would like the help and would like to put more information on my system.

You certainly can run both on your system. It will require you to partition your hard drive so that you can put both OSs on. I have not done this so I will stop there so that I don't give you bad info. I will tell you that unless you know all of the specs for your system you need to make sure that you really want to dual boot. I don't think XP is an easy OS to load on your own. I suspect that is why it is preloaded at the factory. I took XP off of my Dell and loaded SUSE 9.0 and I love it but when I ran into problems at work and tried to go back and reinstall Windows I quickly found out that it was easier to stick with SUSE. Go to the library and checkout linux for dummies (I bought it) or surf the net for papers on dual booting with linux. If you are not sure that going with linux is what you want to do, I suggest that you burn a copy of Knoppix and boot your computer from the CD which will allow you to run linux on your computer without installing it. It is slow but you can at least play with one of many versions of the OS to see what you like and don't like. I did that and it was helpful. As for which one to chose, that is totally up to your personality. Many people use RedHat, Fedora Core and SUSE. Hope this helps. IronHorse

I understand you need seperate partitions to install, I have 3 partitions of my 160 Gig SATA HD, I'd like to ask if you need to format the partitions to install Linux, or does it work with free space. Can anyone provide where to find a copy of RedHats Linux.

google: linux windows dual boot possibly: linux windows xp dual boot Do not be concerned if these produce over a million hits, some over 10 years. You will be able to zero in as you learn to google.

Go to the following link: http://distrowatch.com/ where you can get information on a variety of Linux distributions. You can also download the .ISO files which you can then burn to a CD/DVD and run or load on your PC.