Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 24th Feb 2008 22:18 UTC
"The Ubuntu development community has announced that the fifth Ubuntu 8.04 prerelease is now available for testing. Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 5 adds additional polish and reliability as well as a few intriguing new features. The official release of Ubuntu 8.04, codenamed Hardy Heron, is scheduled for late April and feature freeze is already in effect. One of the most significant new features added in alpha 5 is support for Wubi, a new installation mechanism that makes it easier for Ubuntu and Windows to coexist on the same computer. Wubi provides a complete Ubuntu installer that can be run in Windows from the Ubuntu Live CD. It installs Ubuntu into a folder on the Windows file system and sets up a boot menu so that users can choose between Windows and Ubuntu when the computer starts." My take: The Linux world is playing catch-up to the BeOS world, I see?
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I have been using Wubi for some time. The only problem I had was that the power management doesn't work. If you try to suspend, it gets stuck. This is a known bug, anyway. Otherwise I haven't had any problems, not even when upgrading from 7.04 to 7.10 until...
...until a few days ago, when a kernel update (an automatic one) crippled it and I could not boot anymore. I tried to reinstall, but it resulted in a complete uninstall. My understanding was that the data (virtual) partition would be preserved, but that didn't happen.
Luckily I keep my data on a different partition altogether, so I haven't lost it.
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2005-07-06
While Dapper has been running great as my File/Media/Storage server at home since release, I must say I'm looking forward to having something fresher installed.
While I haven't come across an issue where something I needed on my server wasn't available on Dapper, I'm looking forward to utilizing the latest LTS on my hardware.
and the wubi integration looks spiffy enough, how bad is the performance hit? is anything else crippled/reduced?