How to run Linux in windows?

You can easily get a free linux distribution, if you already have a computer system with windows installed. In this way you can install linux to your windows easily by running Linux in your windows and learn how to use it.

You can run a free virtual machine player if you want to run linux in windows, in this way you can easily open a free linux machine. In linux virtual machine you can find a new linux distribution. Linux software programs and linux operating system are also compressed into a single linux file.

7 steps are described below in which you can learn how to install and run linux in windows:

1. Player installation icon appears on the desktop when you downloaded the free linux virtual machine player to your windows desktop. By this icon you can easily install the player.

2. Follow the prompts to install the virtual machine player by double clicking on the player installation icon. The Linux virtual machine player take few minutes for installation as it is a program which is to be easily installed like other programs. After installation you can see an icon appears on the desktop as opposed to the icon which was early used to install the player. This second icon also has a specialty of running the player.

3. You can find a single large compressed file when a free Linux virtual machine is downloaded. Several Linux virtual machine files are contained by these files. These all files jointly make up the virtual machine. Pre installed versions of Linux operating system and Linux software programs are provided by these files. On many popular Linux distributions, you can find lots of free Linux virtual machines. Be sure when you are downloading Linux virtual machine; do get one that includes a Linux desktop. Some machines are used as Linux servers as they are created without Linux desktops. You can easily run the Linux software programs by the menus as a new Linux user. You can go to Linux command line and run it as this desktop allows you to open one or more terminal widows emulation. Also be sure to get root user password. Your password will be posted at a site where you download Linux. You need the root user password when you go to the Linux command to run Linux administration commands.

4. For Linux virtual machine files, you need to create a folder on hard disk of windows. The compressed Linux virtual machine files contained in that single file are needed to create this folder before uncompressing.

5. From the single downloaded file into the folder, you can uncompress the Linux virtual machine files on your windows hard disk.

6. By double clicking on virtual machine player, you can easily run the Linux virtual machine player.

7. Browse and open the Linux virtual machine player.

High internet speed is recommended for this as this virtual machine file is quite large. Install this file and get the practical experience at how to use Linux.