Getting started using Linq, what do I need?

Question

Basically what the title says. (Forgive me because I am a .NET newb)

In my department, we have a server running .net 3.5 and ever since I got into this section I have be

Answer 1

You have to at least have .Net 2.0 sp1 on your server, and you will have to copy locally handful of assemblies, like System.core, etc...

but without SP1 you will not be able to execute LINQ code because of issues in System.dll.