| New things to get people on linux |
[Aug. 26th, 2007|09:56 pm] |
http://wubi-installer.org
This is a really sweet installer that takes ubuntu and a bunch of other projects and installs it like an application to windows. It then uses the windows boot loader so that whenever you reboot your computer it will ask you whether you want to boot into linux or windows.
This is a great way to get people to start using linux. It doesn't require them to leave their comfort zone much, because it installs like an application. It doesn't even need the user to burn a cd and boot into it. In that respect this is better than suggesting people get a livecd.
Downsides to this are that linux being run from a single file on the filesystem, a fixed size virtual disk, this is also a little bit slower than linux would be running natively. |
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