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660924 2008-04-21 19:46:00 News article from the BBC in England about the new Linux Ubuntu Hardy Heron, quite interesting reading. Link Here (news.bbc.co.uk)

:cool:
gary67 (56)
660925 2008-04-21 21:13:00 Cool, nice little review, would have liked to have heard them rant & rave a little about 8.04's new features :)

And installing it onto a Windows partition, thats cool, many distro's turned away from that ability a few years ago (Back when Redhat released 8.0 was the last mainstream distro I really knew of), but its nice to see them bringing it back :)
Chilling_Silence (9)
660926 2008-04-21 21:24:00 [QUOTE=Chilling_Silence;

And installing it onto a Windows partition,:)[/QUOTE]

Does this mean it's installed as a program, Chill? Not sure what is meant,can you explain a little.
Thanks.
Neil McC (178)
660927 2008-04-22 02:55:00 It installs Ubuntu onto a windows partition, so you dont have to reformat.

In Doze, you see it as one or two large files (Probably on the root of your drive), thats all :)
Chilling_Silence (9)
660928 2008-04-22 05:26:00 OK, so it still needs a separate partition,doesn't run on C, although I take it that root is C? So does it run similar to an OS in Virtual PC ? Thanks. Neil McC (178)
660929 2008-04-22 05:32:00 And I thought from the thread title that I was going to be able to put Linux on my old BBC computer! rumpty (2863)
660930 2008-04-22 08:02:00 So would I need to create another primary partition as you normally do to install Ubuntu or does it just load onto the existing C drive? I have C and E dives C being XP and E being all my data gary67 (56)
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