As compared with the running of a LiveCD inside a virtual machine, the deployment of an operating system from a bootable USB drive (Live USB) offers the user the possibility to install software permanently on the USB as well as to save the system settings.
Fedora Linux distribution features can be tested from inside any Windows operating system, without performing a real installation. This tutorial will show you how to run Fedora 10 alongside Windows OS in a few easy steps. The method can be implemented in case of any other Linux distribution. As a consequence, you can have Linux running inside Windows in a few minutes with a minimum effort.
Fedora, an open source Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat, is a complete general purpose platform featuring leading-edge technologies. Having tenth releases in five years, the latest version of Fedora (Fedora 10) was released on 25 of November 2008.
There are many ways to test a certain Linux distribution on a hard drive partition containing a Windows operating system. A rapid alternative to analyze the features of a Linux distribution, without modifying the partition properties or installing it is by using a LiveCD. (more…)
Many people asked themselves how to run Ubuntu Linux and Windows simultaneously without the need of a virtual machine. The solution is provided by andLinux, a full featured Ubuntu Linux distribution that runs natively in Windows operating system in the same time with Windows without being the need to install a virtual machine. It is freely available for Windows 2000, 2003, XP and Vista operating systems as a single executable file. (more…)
There are quite many ways to shut down a Windows based system. Clicking the “Start” button, followed by clicking the “Turn Off Computer” button, then the “Turn Off” button is probably the most popular. But there are other ways, less known to the average Windows user. Such as pressing the Windows key (the one on the left, between the left Ctrl and Alt keys) and then pressing twice the “U” key. As far as I know, this won’t work on Windows Vista, but it should work on Windows XP or sooner.
DSL (Damn Small Linux) is a very lightweight desktop Linux distribution having approximately 50 MB. It can run as a LiveCD, from a USB drive and within Windows operating system. DSL provides a complete desktop and various command line utilities.
Even it has a low size on disk, DSL provides a wide range of common used desktop applications like web browsers (Dillo, Firefox and Netrick), word processor (Ted), SSH/SCP server and client, PDF viewer (Xpdf), file manager(emelFM), email client, games and others. (more…)
