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It depends on what you want in it.

Your signature says you have a 2GB drive. That is good for most things. KDE and Gnome interfaces take up a bit of real estate on your drive and in memory/resources. There are less newbie-friendly options that use a LOT less resources, if you need to reduce.

How much were you thinking of using for Linux?

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i have a 120 gigs, sorry for the confusion

If you have 120GB free, you have a nice, bright GREEN LIGHT! :)

Like the other poster said, 2-5 should be good. If you don't have a lot of Linux experience, you might want to go 5+, and install everything to sample the different apps. There is a LOT of stuff, so if too many options overwhelm you, you might want to select a more basic config.

Have you picked a distro? What do you want to use Linux for?

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Hey, even if it /was/ just 2GB, that'd be fine, too.

My linux / partition is only 4-5GB in size, and it's still almost completely empty.

Granted, all of my data stays on my NTFS volume - with a FAT32 volume and my CF card for data I might want to later move to the XP drive.

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I'm running suse 9.0 on a 4.9GB drive, i'm only using about 1.4 GB and i've got pretty much 1 of everything. There's always a ton of redundant packages though. I've run mandrake 7 on about 500MB with kde.

Normally i like to give a source distro like gentoo another GB of pure space because unzipped sources take up a ton of room. The kernel, for example, takes up roughly 220MB itself.

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