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Looking to for a place to download Linux for free. Well you have come to the right place!
Beginner
For beginners to Linux, there are several different easy to use and easy to install distributions. Here are our recommendations for getting started with Linux.
Ubuntu Linux is a complete desktop Linux operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit. "Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". The Ubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.
You can download it for free here.
Mandriva Linux (formerly Mandrakelinux), is a user-friendly distribution with enormous community support. It is easy to install and the hardware detection features and disk partitioning programs are often considered the best in the industry. Mandriva Linux offers all the power of Linux for the beginner in an easy-to-use and pleasant environment. Join those who are discovering Linux as a complete replacement for their previous operating system.
Free download here.

Advanced
For the advanced user there are a number of sophisticated distributions which work well on the desktop and as a server. Here our the Hungry Pengiun's choices... BTW the Hungry Penguin uses SUSE!
Fedora Core Mention the word "Linux" and many people will think of the name Red Hat. It is probably the best-known Linux company in the world. In 2003, Red Hat Linux 9 became the last version in the Red Hat Linux product line, however it was was replaced by Fedora Core a Red Hat sponsored distribution of Linux. Much what goes into Fedora Core makes its way into Red Hat's enterprise Linux products.
Download this widley used distribution for free from the Fedora Core site.
SUSE Linux is a distribution with a desktop focus. It is easy to use and there is a professional attention to detail. Recently SUSE (now a Novell company) followed Red Hat in making its distribution more community focused. The openSUSE project is a community program sponsored by Novell (http://www.novell.com). Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, openSUSE.org provides free, easy access to the world's most usable Linux distribution, SUSE Linux. The openSUSE project gives Linux developers and enthusiasts everything they need to get started with Linux.
You can get it from their site

Live
For those who wish to try Linux without having to install it on their hard drive, there exists a number of LIVE CD distributions. They boot directly from the CD and don't install anything on the hard disk. Boot up time is of course slower than with a hard disk, but it is a great way to experiment with Linux.
Knoppix is a bootable Linux CD with great automatic hardware detection (including support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices) Knoppix can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD or as a rescue system. It has on-the-fly decompression, which means that the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it.
Download Knoppix for free.

MEPIS is a relative new comer to the Linux market, however it has been very successful despite its late entry. It was the first with the idea of a LIVE CD plus an optional graphical hard disk installer. This way, users can try the product by simply booting from the MEPIS CD, and install it on hard disk only if they like what they see.
Another reason for the success of MEPIS is that it comes with many useful applications, all pre-configured and ready to use. These include the NVIDIA accelerated driver, Macromedia Flash plugin, Java, various multimedia codecs for playing popular audio and video files and other applications.
Download your free copy of Mepis here.

Mini

Along with the full blown LIVE CDs like Knoppix and MEPIS there is a collection of mini distirbutions who truly believe that small is beautful.
Damn Small Linux, a.k.a. DSL is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop. DSL include XMMS (for MP3), an FTP client, a web browser, a spreadsheet, an email client, a word-processor and much more. If you like Damn Small Linux you can install it on your hard drive. Because all the applications are small and light it makes a very good choice for older hardware.
Get DSL here

Feather Linux is a Linux distribution which runs completely off a CD or a USB pendrive and takes up under 115Mb of space. It is a Knoppix remaster (based on Debian), and tries to include software which most people would use every day on their desktop.
Download it for free.