For all those that say Vista go home im switching to Linux - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

labrax · 06-29-2007, 08:33 PM

Been using Ubuntu for about 3 months now - Kbuntu is supposedly more for people with a windows background. Writing this from FedoraCore 6 laptop - might soon update it to FC7. Ubuntu is very easy though and a great alternative to shelling out a lot of cash for Windows license. I web surf, use email (Evolution email is just as good as Outlook), and the occasional document and spreadsheet (OpenOffice), and listen to music/mp3's and Ubuntu fits the bill perfectly. If you are not intimidated by computers give it a go.

basswipe · 06-30-2007, 08:18 AM

This may sound like a stupid question but can Windows(XP) and Ubuntu exist on the same machine?

The reason I ask is because if there's a problem I would obviously want to be a able to go back to XP.

basswipe · 06-30-2007, 11:45 AM

Nevermind.I found my answers after doing a little research.

labrax · 06-30-2007, 07:00 PM

Sorry, did not see question earlier. As your research shows - they can exist together - there are a couple of things that you can do multiple operating system:

1). You can dual-boot the system with separate installations of Windows XP and Ubuntu (or other Linux distribution).

Or

2). You could download and install VMware (server or workstation) they are now free, and run a virtual OS on top of the Windows XP operatung system. You would run XP and launch the VMware and run that as a separate system. I have that at work - with XP as my main corporate desktop and RedHat Linux 4 and 5 as two separate VMware virtual machines. With VMware server - you can run a bunch of different systems in there if I wanted to.

Have a good evening,

Pete