installation

A Quick Review of Arch Linux

Published in linuxbasement.com - 90 d 2 h ago    



I switched to Ubuntu after hearing a recording of a local Lug meeting. There were 5-6 people there, and during the introductions, they all said they were using Ubuntu. That got me interested, and after trying it, I swithced from Fedora to Ubuntu. That was just before Dapper was released. Even though I experiment with other distributions, I have used Ubuntu almost exclusively since.

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Installing Ubuntu (or other distributuin) without burning a cd.

Published in linuxbasement.com - 130 d 4 h ago    



Not that a cd is that expensive, I just don't like the idea of burning a cd I know I'll only use once. Several years ago I learned how to install linux without having to burn a cd. This is useful if you like to distro hop like I do, and also appreciate that testing on real hardware is far better than using a virtual machine. I have used this method for Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu, but I bet it would work with other distributions as well.

The basics are as follows:

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