If you've never had the simple and beautiful lubuxry of having Linux installed as your primary Operating System (OS), then you should check out the uBuntu Live Creator (lifehacker.com) and make a bootable version onto your USB Drive. They offer "live" versions of many linux Distributors such as Gnoppix, openSUSE, fedora (my other favorite) and of course, uBuntu.
You download this program as an image file (.ISO), and much like you "burn" .ISO files to CD's using programs like PowerISO or MagicISO (I like PowerISO more, & are both free [or to try at least for 30 days, then you just delete and reinstall =] ]), you burn a copy to your USB drive, and on startup, it boots into uBuntu 9.04 Desktop edition. Tadaaaaaaaa
Be the way, you might have to do this [pc only] if it continues to boot into Windows Vista or XP (the exact same thing you'd do if you were forced to boot to a cd...say to reformat a computer). Hit either f8, or f10 a bunch before you see the windows loading loadbar (or look for the button that indicates to go into your BIOS). This should take you to a blue screen, do not be afraid, this is your BIOS - Basic Input/Output System - one of the most powerful features on your computer. Here, you can overclock your system (to squeeze more juice outta your company -like instead of 2.3 MHz, you get 2.6 MHz) and system time settings and a bunch of random things.
You're going to look for something like boot order and arrange it so that a CD or USB boots in order before your hard drive. Why this won't affect your computer in the long run is it's doubtful once you put files back on your USB drive it's going to boot into your word document or all your pictures you took, that's not an .ISO file and isn't meant to be a bootable variable, so don't worry about it =]
This is something fun to do when you want to say that you're a 1337 h4ck3r and have indeed operated in the royale and ultimate Operation System - Unix. We called it Linux because of all the distributors (such as the ones listed above) that make it possible to run, well, UNIX. that's the short version, I gotta hit the hay. Try this. If for no other reason to see the amazing desktop and the simplicity of every movement..it's hard to explain. You also won't wonder where Apple's desktop got it's look - it's almost identical with some drastic differences (such as installing programs via a command prompt (example of some commands below) ....real fun, try this bootable version just for fun - I promise you'll be happy you did.
Until next time..later my one reader for the moment - Becca haha =]
1 comment:
Love it, Tay! This looks amazing! Thanks for the info.
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