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Trying Linux on your Windows system
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| A Windows user who wants to evaluate Linux, or any other alternative
| operating system, on their current system has a large number of options. In
| this article, we will look at those options for the busy Windows user who is
| evaluating Linux, wants to use open source applications, but doesn't want to
| lose access to their Windows system.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Trying-Linux-on-your-Windows-system--/features/111575
Microsoft study overlooks Windows biggest cost
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| First, to the research. As Microsoft's James Utzschneider, general manager of
| Marketing and Communications for Unlimited Potential (Microsoft's euphemism
| for emerging markets), suggests, the study reveals that Windows is more
| expensive to acquire but that the cost of Linux-savvy administrators offsets
| that expense, making it a financial wash over five years.
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| This may very well be true, but it misses the point, as noted. If the cost is
| the same, buy Linux. Linux doesn't come with a monopoly attached to it.
| Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words, as this one provided by
| Roy Schestowitz does.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10050777-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Recent:
Wubi Tuesday
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| In the past I’d have downloaded an ISO image, burning it to CD, and booting
| from the resulting disk. This time, however, I decided to try out Wubi, an
| installer that promised to let me run Ubuntu without having to re-partition
| my hard drive.
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| [...]
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| Once it’s in place, all you need to do is reboot, choose Ubuntu from the list
| displayed at start-up, and you’re ready to run. There are a couple of
| caveats - as it’s running from a virtual disk on another file system you
| can’t hibernate, and if you have a power outage you stand a higher chance of
| getting corruption. Even so, it’s still a great way of getting started with a
| non-Windows OS with out the performance hit of virtualisation - and it’s easy
| to migrate your new install to its own real file system.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/maryb/2008/09/23/wubi-tuesday/
Wubi: The Easy Way To Test-Drive Linux On A Windows PC
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| There must be a catch, right? Not really: If you're looking for a realistic,
| fully functional Linux desktop experience, Wubi comes awfully close. While
| you will see a slight performance penalty running Ubuntu on a Windows file
| system rather than on a native Linux partition, keeping your Windows disk
| defragmented will keep the difference to a minimum.
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http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/wubi_the_easy_w.html
When Dubie met Wubi
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| Loyal readers of this column will remember our four-part series on installing
| one of the more popular distros of Linux, Ubuntu. Now that Ubuntu 8.4 LTS
| (Long-Term Support) has been released, with Firefox 3, you might be curious
| about how to check out and possibly use this upstart OS, but you're reticent
| because of all the nastiness you've heard about partitioning your hard drive,
| which once fell into the realm of Upper Geekdom.
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| Worry no more. Wubi, a free Ubuntu installer for Windows, handles all that
| folderol. It installs Ubuntu as though it were another application on your
| hard drive, and you can delete it at your leisure. You can then test drive
| Ubuntu and its open-source applications, then switch back to Windows if you
| so desire.
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http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080529/BUSINESS/444779100/-1/business
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