(Shifted from anythingwise blogged yesterday)
I'm up and running on Ubuntu 8.04 for my 64 bit system and looks like I've already fallen in love with it. :)
Of course, my installation may have been non-standard first time in all these years because after cleaning up one drive and before beginning an Ubuntu installation, I did the following:
--Searched Ubuntu 64 bit binaries on the system. I found the ones I'd downloaded. Unzipped them. Was thinking of burning a CD and starting Ubuntu installation, but...
--While going through them I found a Windows executable, perhaps wubi.exe. Running it just installed everything in an NTFS partition without removing anything, moreover, from within Win XP! Ubuntu really believes in simplicity, doesn't it? :)
--A reboot led to installation and I switched on the DSL just in case it needs it. Everything done.
--Then it asked me if I wanted to get a proprietary Nvidia driver for my graphics card and downloaded them without hiccups.
--The programmer within me tested cc first, which was working. So I tried c++ which it asked to confirm, downloaded and installed!!!
No wonder, Ubuntu stands for: Linux for humans. :D
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