Reasons to Install Ubuntu
January 10, 2009Last week I was playing with the live disc of Ubuntu 8.01, and whilst I liked it, had no real use for it to use instead of Vista. Since then, I’ve been toying with the idea that it’d be able to at least see the Mac formatted partition of my external hard drive. Having just tried this out using the live disc, I found that it can see it but not write to it, a bit like how Mac OSX can see NTFS but not write to it. Nonetheless, I don’t actually require it to do anymore than that, as long as I’d be able to transfer (the imported video files for Uni projects) to another FAT32 drive at home mainly for archival purposes. I chose the option of installing Ubuntu within Windows, i.e. creating a dual boot option.
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