(December 21, 2009 at 12:41 am)Synackaon Wrote: I found you a solution:
http://wubi-installer.org/
Wow, cool, nice and fast!
Ok I'm DLing it... just one thing... it tells me to go grab a coffee while I wait....... do I have to?
EvF
Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: November 15, 2024, 5:20 pm
| Poll: Which is your preferred web browser? This poll is closed. |
|||
| Chrome | 7 | 28.00% | |
| Firefox | 12 | 48.00% | |
| Internet Explorer | 1 | 4.00% | |
| Opera | 3 | 12.00% | |
| Safari | 2 | 8.00% | |
| Other | 0 | 0% | |
| Total | 25 vote(s) | 100% | |
| * You voted for this item. | [Show Results] |
Thread Rating:
|
Which web browser do you use?
|
 Wow, cool, nice and fast! Ok I'm DLing it... just one thing... it tells me to go grab a coffee while I wait....... do I have to? EvF  
H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe
Get a live CD and you don't have to install anything. How big is the download?
I'm a Firefox user at home, and IE6 at work.
Firefox is familiar to me, but I'm starting to get fed up with it's crazy memory leaks and it sometimes takes a few too many seconds to launch. I have a screenshot of a Firefox instance using over 1.5GB of memory. I use IE6 at work because we have to. It's awful. I tried Chrome, but didn't feel the need to switch at the time. I used to use Opera for a few months and I really liked it, stuff like mouse gestures and the favourites showing up on new tabs were very handy. These days it seems like the browser war isn't about features as they can all be endlessly customized. I'll probably switch to Chrome someday soon.
- Meatball
My firefox has been open all day, and is on 91MB.
Best regards,
Leo van Miert Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you 
H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe
Mine's sat on 96mb. Video's on here don't show in Chrome either. This work machine is well overdue a rebuild. I've abused it badly
H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe
Sounds terrible. It says in the faq it's a boot option not an application, and that it runs slower with no dedicated partition like regular installs.
Hmmm...seems the Wikipedia article needs updating then. It's misleading. It seems to jerry-rig Windows so you can boot into Ubuntu without creating other partitions.
I think it'd be easier to get a disk image and use Virtualisation. At least then you wouldn't have to wait for ages like with a Live CD.  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/ |
|
« Next Oldest | Next Newest »
|
Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)
