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Ryan Wagner

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Re: Installing Ubuntu
« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2007, 01:35:08 PM »
The Player is free which can only open existing VMware images of operating systems. The Workstation, which is not free, is what you need to do a fresh install of an operating system such as Windows. At least that is how I have always known it to be.
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Re: Installing Ubuntu
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2007, 01:07:40 AM »
Hmm. I thought Workstation was free as well. It must have been at some point, cos I have a load of serial numbers for it. I wouldn't have paid for them.

There are ways to do a fresh install with the player, its just not as easy as with the Workstation version
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Re: Installing Ubuntu
« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2007, 09:55:01 AM »
Quote from: Nogg3r5 on January 05, 2007, 01:07:40 AM
Hmm. I thought Workstation was free as well. It must have been at some point, cos I have a load of serial numbers for it. I wouldn't have paid for them.

There's always alternatives to getting a load of serial numbers.  ^-^
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Re: Installing Ubuntu
« Reply #18 on: January 05, 2007, 10:38:10 AM »
Yeah, but i have an actually printout from VMware, proper official ones!
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Re: Installing Ubuntu
« Reply #19 on: January 05, 2007, 06:36:58 PM »
Maybe instead of sleep walking you just buy software while you sleep.  B)
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Re: Installing Ubuntu
« Reply #20 on: January 06, 2007, 03:30:47 AM »
lol perhaps!

Or, your wrong  :P

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/03/vmware_goes_free/
http://www.vmware.com/products/free_virtualization.html

No offence.
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Re: Installing Ubuntu
« Reply #21 on: January 06, 2007, 11:42:10 AM »
No offense, but I'm not wrong.  8)

VMware Server and VMware Player are offered for free...not VMware Workstation...
http://www.vmware.com/products/free_virtualization.html

VMware Server
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VMware Server installs on any existing server hardware and partitions a physical server into multiple virtual machines by abstracting processor, memory, storage and networking resources, giving you greater hardware utilization and flexibility.

VMware Player
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VMware Player lets you evaluate new or pre-release software contained in virtual machines, without any installation or configuration hassles.

 :P


But if you want to drop $189 you can get VMware Workstation. :)
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Re: Installing Ubuntu
« Reply #22 on: January 07, 2007, 03:10:34 PM »
**hides his face in shame**
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Re: Installing Ubuntu
« Reply #23 on: January 15, 2007, 01:18:33 PM »
I just burned the ISO image of the new Ubuntu 6.10 to CD so I'll be installing it soon too!  It looks like there's a lot of documentation, help, and tutorials out there on how to use Ubuntu Linux so that's good for me!

I'll be in touch!  :)
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Re: Installing Ubuntu
« Reply #24 on: January 15, 2007, 02:05:57 PM »
Here are some links that I found to be helpful:

Ubuntu Forums - http://www.ubuntuforums.org/
Ubuntu Edgy Guide - http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy
Ubuntu Community Docs - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/
Google Linux - http://www.google.com/linux
Introduction to Linux - http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/

Blogs
Tuxme - http://www.tuxme.com
Ubuntu Blog - http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/feed/


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Re: Installing Ubuntu
« Reply #25 on: January 15, 2007, 02:27:22 PM »
The forums and wiki are uber-useful, pretty much everything u could ever want is there!
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Re: Installing Ubuntu
« Reply #26 on: January 15, 2007, 03:11:14 PM »
Yeah, I would say that the forums are the most useful for Ubuntu. I just wish I could run it on my primary laptop but it doesn't support the fans...so it gets way too hot.  :-\
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Re: Installing Ubuntu
« Reply #27 on: January 15, 2007, 03:59:35 PM »
Quote from: Ryan Wagner on January 15, 2007, 03:11:14 PM
Yeah, I would say that the forums are the most useful for Ubuntu. I just wish I could run it on my primary laptop but it doesn't support the fans...so it gets way too hot.  :-\

Kinda sucks. It doesn't support the network card on my pc, I haven't found n e other network cards that aren't supported!!
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Re: Installing Ubuntu
« Reply #28 on: January 16, 2007, 07:01:15 PM »
Saw this on Digg...Evidently there is a way to install Ubuntu from Windows:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=338279

Looks interesting...could be easier than burning the ISO to a CD.
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Re: Installing Ubuntu
« Reply #29 on: January 16, 2007, 07:55:37 PM »
Huh, just looked at the homepage for it and it really looks interesting. I think Ubuntu is easy to get going as it is...but they keep finding ways to make it easier. I'm pretty impressed.
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