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as a consequence of this report i am downloading now ubunto linux, i will install it on the second primary partition. this will be my first experience with linux
i hope the installation will not corrupt my first primary partition.
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Re^2: Why is Windows 100 times slower than Linux when growing a large scalar?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 01, 2009 at 13:31 UTC

    Ubunto 9.10 really is quite usable. It's the first linux dist I've tried that I could say that about--and I've tried quite a few.

    Now, if only Linus would relent and allow pluggable schedulers...

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Re^2: Why is Windows 100 times slower than Linux when growing a large scalar?
by davis (Vicar) on Dec 01, 2009 at 21:42 UTC
    If you're seriously worried about it eating all of the cheese in the house, just have a play with the Live CD, or slap it inside a VirtualBox (or whatever) VM.

    davis

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Re^2: Why is Windows 100 times slower than Linux when growing a large scalar?
by holli (Abbot) on Dec 02, 2009 at 13:44 UTC
    You can install Ubuntu into a file on the Windows filesytem (See Wubi). No need to create an extra partition.

    This will also not overwrite the Windows-Bootloader (as GRUB et al. do) but use the Windows-Bootloader to start Ubuntu.

    Btw, does anyone know what happened to the "Linux In a Window" (under Windows) that i recall from the day of Win98?


    holli

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      Btw, does anyone know what happened to the "Linux In a Window"

      I've never heard of that, but VirtualBox runs Ubunto in a seemless window on a win32 or win64 desktop, which is very convenient (and free).

      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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      There is CoLinux, which is a port of the Linux Kernel (and some userspace) to Windows.

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