Wubi or Live CD for Linux
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When I opened the 888-PIRILLO phone line the other night, I had an interesting call with a Linux problem. Let’s take a listen and see how it worked out.
The caller had tried downloading Linux to the computer using Wubi. Once he did that on his Vista machine and loaded it, the screen went blue and red and said the graphics card was incompatible. He wondered what ideas I may have. The first question I had is whether Wubi itself is Vista compatible.
For those who may not know, here is an explanation about Wubi:
Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other application. If you heard about Linux and Ubuntu, if you wanted to try them but you were afraid, this is for you.
My suggestion is to forget Wubi altogether, and just use a Live CD. All you have to do is download the .ISO and burn it to a CD using a burning program. Then simply put the CD in the drive and reboot your machine. If the machine isn’t set to read from the CD, you can just toggle to that. The great thing about live CDs is that you can reboot and be in Linux, then reboot again with the CD out… and you’re back in Windows. You don’t actually “install” Linux on your hard drive this way, and you can still try it out without making any changes to your system.
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