{"id":1083,"date":"2009-01-27T12:22:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T19:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/27\/linux-the-easy-way"},"modified":"2009-02-11T19:55:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T02:55:13","slug":"linux-the-easy-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/27\/linux-the-easy-way","title":{"rendered":"Linux the Easy Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran across Wubi<\/a> last night. Wubi is a utility that installs a full version of Ubuntu on a PC running Windows. It’s nice for several reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. It’s much<\/em> easier to use that the usual way of installing Ubuntu. You don’t have to repartition your drive, you don’t have to fiddle with a bootloader, you don’t have to know how to set up a Linux filesystem. Basically it’s a one-click operation. You download and run it; it downloads Ubuntu and installs it for you.<\/li>\n
  2. It installs a really-truly installation of Ubuntu. It’s not a form of virtualization (which is slow) nor is it a live boot CD (which is slower).<\/li>\n
  3. Once it installs Ubuntu, you can uninstall it like you’d uninstall any other Windows application.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I just used it to install Ubuntu on my Thinkpad X60 tablet. I’m a Linux neophyte but am interested in having a Linux system around for doing some development that appears to be simpler under Linux than under Windows. (Why, oh why<\/strong> is it so difficult to access the RS-232 ports from software running under XP?) Much of what I’ve seen of Linux strikes me as still not quite ready for prime time, but I’m betting that the development tools are quite good, given that the only people that used Linux up until recently were developers.<\/p>\n

    UPDATE: On my nth googling session, I finally found a good code example here<\/a> for doing serial I\/O under Windows XP. I think I’ll give it a shot rather than fiddling around with Linux. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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