[Eug-lug] Re: Linux Ubuntu Install Tutorial

[Allen Brown]

Just wait until somebody comes up with a Windoze worm that targets
Wubi.  Then whenever you boot Wubi you get the infection.

Hmm.  I suppose that's not very likely.  But I'm still nervous about
entering a "secure" system by way of an insecure system.  It just
seems wrong.
-- 
Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org  http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
  A fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man
  knows himself to be a fool. --- William Shakespeare


> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Allen Brown <abrown at peak.org> wrote:
>> That is an interesting possibility. I am not trying to keep it that
>> generic. Â So in that sense this would work. Â But the problem is
>> that I can't test it myself. Â (I don't have a Windoze computer.)
>> So I can't really support it.
>
> I hear you on the difficulties in supporting something you can't run
> yourself. Wubi comes with warnings that it's not for production use,
> or at least did. But its advantages over a live CD as a demonstration
> vehicle include: [i] with Ubuntu living on hard disk rather than CD
> it's much faster; and [ii] apps installed after loading don't have to
> reside in memory, as with a live CD distro. So it's faster and its
> configuration more durable.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Paul
>
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