Wubi Arrives: a Look at Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5

February 24th, 2008 | Category: OS

“The Ubuntu development community has announced that the fifth Ubuntu 8.04 prerelease is now available for checking. 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 meaningful 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 total Ubuntu installer that can be run in Windows from the Ubuntu habitable CD. It installs Ubuntu into a folder on the Windows file system and sets up a boot menu so that users can choose amoung Windows and Ubuntu when the computer starts.” My take: The Linux world is playing catch-up to the BeOS world, I see?

Original post by donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda)

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