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A must for anyone considering abandoning Windows or simply getting serious about Linux. Great delivery, good price.

I really wish that I had read the single one star rating before I had bought this product. I expected to get things that were freely available, but nicely packaged. With four CD/DVDs one could put a lot of good information in this package. I was surprised to find the library consisted of less than a dozen (small ~1-2M) PDF files. The DVD was short and poorly done.

I'm a Linux user... and looked forward to this set. Up-front it seemed like it should do well.

However, installation was a nightmare. It should have installed easily and well. I was installing Linux to a 32 gig memory stick. The result was it crashing my hard drive (which it shouldn't have even touched) and forcing re-installation of Windows.

Purchasing a magazine distro from the local bookstore resulted in first-time, no problems installation. So whether this was an isolated experience or not I cannot tell for a certainty, but I wasn't impressed with his particular distro.

Five stars for the fabulous Linux operating system, zero stars for the "value added" video and printed matter.

The software is the software, and you are paying for the convenience of taking delivery of disks in lieu of downloading online. That part worked for me, and I was glad to pay the trivial $20 cost of this package.

However, if you're buying this package because of the perceived value of the video introduction or the printed list of commands, then I recommend that you save your money and just download the software. The video has no value beyond visual confirmation that a language called Linux does, indeed, exist. As to learning anything useful from it, forget it, it's not going to happen because the content is a series of Linux commands flashed up on the screen (I had to watch it on my TV because I don't have DVD software on my computer).

Ditto, the printed list of commands is, well, a printed list of commands. What is the last software package you bought where a printed list of commands was useful? Wordstar, maybe, in the 1980s? (Yes, my computing history goes back a long way . . .)

Bottom line -- if you want a convenient package of the Linux software, this is worthwhile -- heck, it's only $20 -- but if you think the video or the printed commands are value added and you need something substantive to get you started with Linux, they are not what you need, and you should look elsewhere.

It proudly states that it is for both the 32 bit & 64 bit systems - but 3 of the 4 disks are for the 32 bit system. Get Linux Jazz, for your 64 bit system - and it's only about $3.00 more. (if you don't need/want the tutorials, just go online and download it for free - plus online you can try Mint, Gnome and others)

There is absolutely no value to this product. You can download and burn the Ubuntu and Kubuntu installation disks for free from the Ubuntu website. The disks that come with this aren't even bootable. The "Introduction to Linux" video is a bad joke. Most of the time is spent explaining why GUIs are bad while a static image of an ad for their training course is on the screen. Terrible. Shameful.

The product works but is very difficult to use in that the tutorials are nearly impossible to use due to the fact that they are not very well organized. Nothing is in alphabetically arranged or organized in any other logical order.