I have installed Linux Ubuntu on my 64-bit Windows PC, turning it into a dual boot configuration.
The link is: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/windows-installer
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I have also installed the Linux versions of Python & Spyder.
Here is a Python installation method from Nick Smith:
Part of the beauty of switching to Python is how cross-platform it is. While pythonxy hasn’t finished a linux build yet, installing spyder is pretty easy in Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install python-sphinx python-scipy python-matplotlib spyder
Note: All you really need is spyder, but adding python-sphinx allows you to have rich text in your documentation which looks nice and in my opinion is easier to read. The packages python-scipy and python-matplotlib may be optional, but I use them in my tutorials, so I would recommend including those as well.
Reference: http://www.et.byu.edu/~nas52/blog/?p=24