How to uninstall Linux from my computer

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I really don't want to tell you what to do but I would like you to consider the following:

-Linux is only a kernel, so it is the same core system present in all distribution.

-The profound distinction that exist between different distro is the default configuration they provide and the special tools they invented to manage the system, their installer, their support such as documentation and customer services etc...

-With time and knowledge, you could bring any distro to look and feel as another one (almost... and generally). Remember linux was initially about hacking, so it has been design to be completely cutomizable.

-Please, don't ask your linux box to become a new Windows. The philo behind linux is brilliant and it has its own "way". I would recommend you learn it from a book (Running Linux from O'Reilly), if it is not already done. You will be rewarded many times. Clearly, I mean that you don't need to compare the windows like features included in many linux distributions because ultimately, you won't need it really.

-SUSE, Fedora3 and Mandriva are three buzz words compared to other distro, they are the ones making a lot of publicity mainly because a branch of the company went commercial and they have money. I don't know for Fedora but when I tried the other two, they where a lot windows like with puppies and iconic options everywhere and it is not, to my opinion, a quality.

-Try Debian. It is free as in really free, rock stable, the new installer for Sarge is easy and makes you learn a lot about what is going on while installing, it has many times MORE applications available than any other distro and the apt-get packaging system is a wonder compared to plain rpms (I don't know now if the distro using rpm have automated the download-install sequence such as apt-get since I last used it) . If you really want to install manually, you can do it with debs packages and hey... why not compile it from sources. If you have a fast internet connection, burn the net install cd. It will download only the packages choosed during install. Using it you will learn a lot, something not negligable when it comes to linux. In the debian documentation section, you can find many manuals for installing and administrating properly.

-If you really need something user friendly and of extreme quality, get a hand on the stable version of Ubuntu (real free too). Based on the quality of Debian but with a lot of money backing their development, they support most hardware, and the system will be well tuned at the very fist time you'll get in. With the sudo mecanism used by default, you won't destroy your system by mistake etc...

I wrote all this because as you didn't know that rewriting your partion table, with any installer, would scrap a previous install of any operating system, I deduce you just entered the linux world. Excuse my lenghtly explanations if you already knew all this. Excuse my english too as it is not my mother tongue.

Hope it helps,

olivier h.

p.s: SUSE, Fedora and Mandriva are in no doubt excellent distro. The only thing is that other things exist and they worth the check.