RE: Which web browser do you use?
December 22, 2009 at 12:31 am
(This post was last modified: December 22, 2009 at 12:35 am by Autumnlicious.)
As the dedicated OSS guru here, let me point out that Wubi installs into the windows bootloader an entry that mounts a file as a filesystem and chain-loads Ubuntu from that.
Wubi is faster than a live cd but incurs a minor overhead penalty as you are writing to a filesystem over the windows NTFS filesystem. Wubi has the wonderful flexibility of being contained in a select group of files, does not require you to repartition your drive and allows you to explore linux without the slowness of a live cd and the finality of a full install.
For Adrian, you can visit http://isv-image.ubuntu.com/vmware/ for premade Vmware images that are compatible with the VMware Player, downloadable at http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
Wubi is faster than a live cd but incurs a minor overhead penalty as you are writing to a filesystem over the windows NTFS filesystem. Wubi has the wonderful flexibility of being contained in a select group of files, does not require you to repartition your drive and allows you to explore linux without the slowness of a live cd and the finality of a full install.
For Adrian, you can visit http://isv-image.ubuntu.com/vmware/ for premade Vmware images that are compatible with the VMware Player, downloadable at http://www.vmware.com/products/player/