If this is the case, then introducing Linux via a virtual machine (VM) is a relatively safe and easy path to experiment with. Whilst they might be familiar with their MS-Windows environment, because that's what they've been brought up on and what their favourite applications are designed for, they might also be "Linux curious", especially if they are hoping to either scale-up the complexity and volume of the datasets they're working with (i.e., towards high performance computing) or scale-down their applications (i.e., towards embedded devices). Or that MacOS is built on the same broad family of UNIX-like operating systems. Or maybe even that the Android mobile 'phone uses a Linux kernel. They may know that the overwhelming majority of embedded devices, such as home routers, use Linux. They might even know that every single supercomputer in the world uses Linux. Most people these have at least heard of Linux. All of this now leads to a some notes on using MS-Windows as a host for Ubuntu Linux guest machines. A few years after that I gave another presentation on the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), itself which (indirectly) led to a post on Linux and MS-Windows 8 dual-booting.
You only need an Internet connection to connect, and then use the full resources of the server.Some thirteen years ago I worked with Xen virtual machines as part of my day job, and gave a presentation at Linux Users of Victoria on the subject (with additional lecture notes). For example, at IONOS you can very easily set up a cloud server that runs Ubuntu. You also still have the option of not installing the second system on your own PC, but instead relying on a cloud. So instead of installing Ubuntu on your hard drive, you just use the USB stick. The downside is that this method takes a lot of system resources, so it runs comparatively slowly.Īnother way you can work with Ubuntu in addition to Windows 10 is to use a live system loaded from a USB stick. So instead of loading either one system or the other, you have Windows and Ubuntu running at the same time. With this method, you launch additional software, which then loads Ubuntu.
These are especially suitable if you rarely need to resort to the second operating system.įor example, you can install Ubuntu in a virtual machine. There are other ways you can work with Ubuntu in addition to your Windows 10 installation without having to resort to dual-booting.
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