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   From: "Deaf Frets"    
   Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: install ubuntu inside XP   
   Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:00:11 +1000   
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   On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:32:50 +0000, ray wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:28:13 +1000, Deaf Frets wrote:   
   >    
   >> What a brilliant innovation! An installer that creates an ubuntu disk   
   >> image inside a windows NTFS filesystem. Should introduce linux to a   
   >> whole new market of people (people who would like to try it, but don't   
   >> want to re partition their disks.)   
   >>    
   >> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=338279   
   >    
   > That's what they make Live CDs for.   
      
   Live distros are great, except that they're so slow, even with a 54 speed   
   optical drive and a Gb of RAM. They don't really showcase the OS.   
      
   There's also the fact that there's no point in updating the repositories,   
   or setting any preferences because as soon as you have occasion to switch   
   the machine off or reboot, all your settings of course revert to zero.   
   Unless you store all the data  on a hard disk or usb partition, in which   
   case, there's no point in using a live distro.   
      
   The only other way around it is to use the various tools available to make   
   your own custom build of knoppix, or puppy. If you're able to do that,   
   then you probably don't need to "try" linux at all. You're probably an old   
   hand at it.   
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