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One Small Feature of Ubuntu 8.04 That Could Make a Very Large Impact

Posted by InTheLoop on · 7 comments
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With all the other features of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.04 release, one feature that could drastically increase the rate at which Ubuntu spreads has been largely overlooked.

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Comments (7)

Bob_Robertson ·
So the loop-back "in windows" install has returned! I actually kept a copy of Dragon Linux, which would not do it on NTFS, only FAT.

Bully for Ubuntu!
ColonelPanik ·
It is cool, nifty even.
gus3 ·
Slackware still has its ZipSlack installation to FAT as well, even providing the "loadlin.zip" in /root.
tuxtom ·
@Gus: Sadly, this feature is of little use in modern, everyday computing. Most Windows folks have NTFS, and even those that might have extra FAT partitions have likely run into performance and file size limitations in this age of multimedia and moved onto NTFS.
techiem2 ·
Man, I remember using loadlin with slack.... Suse used to have the livecd setup to make a loopback file on the local machine to store data and settings. Was an interesting setup.

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