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Are you a Windows user who is curious to try Linux (Ubuntu in particular) because you have heard so many good things about the OS from your geek friends? There are two ways to use Linux on a Windows computer. You can either install the full Linux OS alongside Windows, or if you are just starting with Linux for the first time, the other easy option is that you run Linux virtually with making any change to your existing Windows setup. The former option will offer the best performance because all your system resources will be available to Linux but the latter option is absolutely risk-free and therefore recommended for novice users. Youll be able to test drive Linux but without changing a single file on your Windows computer.
desktop edition of Ubuntu, perhaps the most popular and actively developed Linux distribution.
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your desktop inside a Java applet. Theres absolutely no need to download or install anything on your computer and a single session can last up to two hours. You get access to all the features that are available in the standard desktop edition of Ubuntu Linux including the ability to download and install new packages from the Linux repository.
around 650 MB in size. If you dont have a great Internet connection, you can always borrow the Ubuntu CD from a friend (yes, its perfectly legal) or order a readymade live CD from OSDisc.com (http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/livecd
/ubuntu) .
Once you have Ubuntu ISO image file, grab an empty USB disk and use UNetbootin
(http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) to quickly turn that USB drive into a bootable
Ubuntu disk for Ubuntu without having to burn a CD. Insert the bootable USB flash drive into your Windows computer and reboot. If this doesnt work, go to the BIOS boot menu and change the boot sequence. You should see an option at the boot menu that says Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer choose that and you are good to go. Once inside Linux,
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you can install new programs, create files and everything else that you normally do at a computer though your changes wont be written to the disk. The Ubuntu portal (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD) has more details on creating and troubleshooting a LiveCD.
download the VMware image (http://www.trendsigma.net/vmware/ubuntu1104.html) for Ubuntu and extract the zip file (I use PeaZip (http://www.labnol.org/software
/winzip-alternative/19550/) ). Now double-click the Ubuntu.vmx file that you just
extracted and the Linux virtual machine will load inside the VMWare Player. Simple!
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Technically, Linux will be the guest operating system while Windows will be considered the host OS. And other than VMware, you may also VirtualBox to run Linux inside windows. The VirtualBox installer and the Ubuntu Linux images for VirtualBox for can be downloaded for free from oracle.com (http://www.oracle.com
/technetwork/server-storage/virtualbox/downloads/index.html#vbox) .
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Now the next time you restart / reboot your computer, it will offer you a choice of Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows. This is a real Linux installation and thus the overall performance should be good as well. If you ever want to uninstall Linux, simple boot into Windows, go to the Add-Remove problems and uninstall Wubi.
Written by Amit Agarwal (http://www.labnol.org/about/) , personal technology columnist and founder of Digital Inspiration. You can follow him
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