Ubuntu is a dream compared to Windoze….
Ubuntu is based on Debian and perhaps the hottest distro today. The main difference between Windows and Ubuntu (and most other Linux distros) is that Ubuntu just simply works, out of the box. (As you can already guess, I am somewhat baised on the issue Windows vs Linux…)
I just installed Ubuntu 6.06 (also known as Dapper Drake). The installation, as always was fast and easy. XP installs usually takes about an hour but Ubuntu took a halfhour top.
Do you have to do a lot of manual advanced drive formatting to make Ubuntu happen? If you have a complete HDD to spare for Ubuntu to live on, then you needn’t worry, since the Ubuntu install program takes care of all the nitty gritty formatting. In my case, I rain into some problems when I was trying to install Ubuntu on a dying harddrive, which is a situation not even Ubuntu can handle. When I got hold of the situation, I unplugged the faulty drive and decided to install Ubuntu alongside Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server on my remaining, healthy drive. In Windows Disk Manager, I created a logical 10 GB partition which I formatted as FAT32. Windows won’t allow for Ext2 or Ext3 formatting which is Linux standard format - but the Ubuntu install will reformat from FAT32 to Ext. FAT32 is a format which both Windows and Linux can read and write, so I prepared another 10 GB partition for “Common Data”. FAT32 is better than NTFS for common data, since Linux can’t write on NTFS partitions.
The only thing to remember when you insert the Ubuntu CD is which partition you intend to install it on.
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