Wubi : what a cute name for a smart tool

Now that Ubuntu is out and is used my 10's and thousands of developers, its time that all users of PC also get a taste of this new desktop system. But how ? well, you
can have a Live CD, that can run directly from a CD drive, and not install anything on your windows PC. This will enable you to experiment with Linux, without impacting
existing OS on the system. all you need to do is set your boot order to boot from CD drive, and then from HDD. Even though this will work, this Live CD approach will need lot of memory, and you may not be able to explore true potential of the new OS.

So here is another very nice solution : use Wubi to install OS on windows itself. Did you say What !! yes, you heard it right, Wubi is a ".exe" file,
using which you can install Ubuntu directly on windows XP machine. It creates a temporary partition and installs complete Ubuntu along with Windows OS, and also provided a boot menu. Using this boot menu at startup you can select either Windows or Ubuntu. After running this for weeks or months, and you are completely satisfied with Ubuntu, then you can move file systems to this partition, and make Ubuntu a permanent OS you want to use. Best of all, if you are not completely satisfied, you can just delete the OS by deleting files from one place.

This is new concept and will help you install and evaluate a OS, than like evaluate and install (in Live CD). This approach also provided you full benefit of keeping both OS as long as you want, and not boot and run your OS from a CD.

You can find all about Wubi here :

Wubi Homehttp://wubi-installer.org/

Informative blog about Wubi
http://agolb.blogspot.com/2007/06/why-wubi-is-important-for-linux.html