Installing Ubuntu Linux

Last few days, my desktop suddenly crashed for now reason, I think. After I boot up my pc, everything seems fine but before the “Windows Loading” screen displays, the monitor shows nothing. Blank… As usual, I tried to troubleshoot the desktop from software to hardware.

Firstly, I tried to boot using my “Boot CD for Windows” but still, nothing happened. Then I tried to boot up using Windows Installation CD but when the “Windows is inspecting your hardware configuration” appears, it will reboot. So I tried to check using almost every Rescue CD I have. But nothing worked.

I tried to boot using the Ubuntu Linux CD and to my surprise, it boot up. So basically, I am using the Live CD version of the Ubuntu Linux. I can’t just install it because I’m not the only person who uses the desktop.

Some of my data were inside the OS hard disk so I can’t just reformat the hard disk. I did a backup to my data to other PC using IDE to USB converter and then reformat everything.

I reformatted the hard disk because I thought that it is the one which cause the error.

I can install the Ubuntu Linux but not Windows into the PC. I have no option but to install the Ubuntu Linux to my desktop, thinking how will others will use it.

After installation, I can say that Ubuntu Linux is more user friendly compared to other *nix flavor. My latest version of Linux except from Ubuntu is Red Hat 8.X. So I can’t say that Ubuntu is the best. But since they sent me the CD, I can say that they are better.:D

I didn’t do much setup to let others use the desktop with the new operating system, Ubuntu Linux. Almost everything is the same with Windows functionality except of course with games. But since nobody is using my desktop for games, I will stick with Linux OS desktop for the mean time.

Almost everything is plug and play with Ubuntu Linux OS, if you are worrying if your kids won’t understand this OS, Ubuntu Linux and other *nix are now being developed with user friendly GUI.

By the way, if you want to try or learn Ubuntu Linux, you can request for your CD or download the ISO (Image file) from their official website at http://www.ubuntu.com/ .