Wubi is, according to a thread on this list, the easiest way to
install Ubuntu on Windows.
Let me qualify that... When Ubuntu has just brought out "Feisty Fawn",
( Ubuntu 7.04, Beta), is NOT a good time to try this install, I've had
speeds as slow as 25 B. a second and numerous dropped connections,
( although Wubi says you can resume a partial download, it's never
worked for me.
Also, if you want to download the other Window manager versions of
Ubuntu, ( Kubuntu and Xubuntu), Wubi doesn't give you the option, and
a manual download into the right place, \wubi\install won't be
recognised. Other people have said Wubi says it is possible, but now
the crux of the problem...
I can't find where I got Wubi from!
It doesn't seem to have it's own site, ( unfortunately Wubi is also
the Chinese name of a system for converting Chinese words in our Roman
alphabet, ( a system called Pin Yin), into Chinese characters
onscreen)).
I seem to remember that the site that hosted the download was
something beginning with a C....Soft.
Somebody else did mention that they'd found as page that said you
could download Kubuntu with Wubi, but not how.
Does anyone have a Web contact address?
BTW, I recommend anyone coming from the Windoze world NOT to start
with Ubuntu, unless you like GNOME's brown desktop, something that is
obviously just the command line obscured by a GUI, and something that
neither has the integration or more efficient use of the processor
that KDE has.
So, start with Kubuntu, unless you have an old, ( Note obselete has
less meaning in Linux), graphically challenged box. In that case try
Xubuntu, and be prepared to work a little differently.
bean
