Re: [PLUG] Story and warning about wubi and ubuntu

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

On Sunday 10 January 2010 11:19:30 Russ Wenner wrote:
> Another solution for those of us that need to work in Windows is "Portable
>  Ubuntu Remix" http://portableubuntu.demonccc.com.ar/
> which runs Ubuntu as a stand-alone app within Windows so there is no need
>  to reboot.
> 

That's intriguing.  Almost like the inverse of wine.  How is hardware 
peripheral support?

I have been doing the opposite where I need Windows.  Instead of a clunky 
windows host, I run Ubuntu as the host and run a bare bones windows VM in 
VirtualBox that only has the software I need installed on it, working in 
Ubuntu for everything else.

-- 
Art Alexion

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