Strange Attitude Blog

A few years ago I was running a server in the basement that my buddy set me up with. I was running Mandrake 9 on that sucker with Apache, Samba and a nifty little FTP server. It worked great (software wise) but the hardware took a dump on me eventually. So after that I took my backup files and tossed them onto a external drive and used that as my network attached storage. That did the trick since I had moved my website to a dedicated off site server and that took care of http and FTP traffic.

Now we are running XP and Vista on our PCs but I have the itch. Basically because it’s raining. You see when it’s raining I tend to hole up and mess around with my computers and play video games (geek out basically). But please note I did get out and run 10 miles this AM so I won’t feel guilty about being such a slug sitting inside in front of a display device all day.

So, how am I going to switch to Linux without screwing up everything?  Easy,  just go to get a application called Wubi.  Wubi is an application that allows you to run Ubuntu from a Windows box as an alternate OS.  It’s just a little file that helps make the install easier by going out and grabbing the most recent build of Ubuntu all by itself and installs it while you have a cup of coffee.  After it’s all installed you can choose between linux or windows after a reboot.  You don’t even have to burn a CD to use for the install!!

What is a Wubi?

What is Ubuntu?