A practical guide to Ubuntu Linux
The arrival of Mark G. Sobell’s “A practical guide to Ubuntu Linux” a few days ago prompted me to try living in Ubuntu for a day. I’m a Mac guy (or have been since OS X anyway), but that’s because of Unix more than anything else, so I could just as easily use Linux as my daily OS.
The first challenge was installation. I have a spare box I could use for this, but I’m a fan of virtualization, so why not use it on the MacBook? Indeed, why not, but Parallels let me down: for the first time in all the Linux installs I have done, the latest Ubuntu could not initiate an X session to install from. That was surprising, because I’ve installed older versions of Ubuntu under Parallels - why is this different?