Your system will be fine installing Ubuntu 7.10. You can do it in two ways. One
go to http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu and DL the ISO and once down loaded, burn
the file as ISO data format. Or you can go to your mom and pa computer store and
ask for a free copy of it. Even Best Buy Geek Squad should have free copies for
free too. Installing will take about an hour or more. It is going to have a crap
load of up dates to go through. Or you can wait till about the end of April for
the new version of Ubuntu to come out. Ubie is very easy to use and will take
some time to get use to. Remember it is not windows at all. Yet, very stable and
you are safer to surf the web than windows ever will be. If you like to stay at
it. I can give you most helpful links to get any new person to Ubie with 4 brain
cells to learn it very easy.