Linux/Debian Question

I have a Linux/Debian on my really crappy computer and I am wondering if there is away that i can connect to it and run commands through my main computer which is an XP? Or another OS that I can do this with?

 

Yes, first you need to have ssh running on your windows machine. (http://howto.colemanguy.com/sshsetupguide.html) if you haven't already got it running. Then use a tool like putty (google for it) to ssh to your linux box.

 

Well I'm quite new to linux, just want to mess around without the hassle of 2 monitors, i have download openssh-4.4p1.tar.gz what do I do with this?

 

ok, lets start over, only download install the files manualy if you can't use your distros normal installer to install the ssh package.

 

Ok I also need to download some stuff, is there a shell command to download from a mirror?

 

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Are you sure you are ready for Debian?

Don't take offense to this, but I sense you are pretty new to Linux. Consider Ubuntu.

Debian wiki:
http://wiki.debian.org/