Here’s a really interesting idea courtesy of Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDNet (“How to … install Ubuntu 8.04 on a USB flash drive“).  In the post he outlines the process of how you would go about preparing a USB flash drive to run Ubuntu Hardy Heron.
What this means is you’d have the ability to carry a portable operating system with you wherever you went.  All you’d need to use it is a physical computer to plug in to that would recognise the USB Flash drive and whose BIOS supported booting by …

I just ran a quick test of the existing instance of Windows XP I had set up using Virtual Box to see if the software would run in Hardy Heron.
Initially Win XP wouldn’t load and I got an error indicating:
“VirtualBox kernal driver not installed.  The vboxdrv kernal moducle was either not loaded or /dev/vboxdrv was not created for some reason.  Re-setup the kernal module by executing ‘/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup’ as root.”
However once I ran the command referenced by the error message I found I could boot up the virtual Windows XP …

I’m currently in the process of upgrading Ubuntu on my primary machine from Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron and thought I’d chime in with some upgrade commentary while the 2 hour download process is underway.
So far thanks to the upgrade tool the process has been extremely straightforward. By selecting System –> Administration –> Update Manager and then Check For Updates I was informed that a new version of the distro was available and by clicking upgrade I was taken to the upgrade tool.
Beginning with some general …

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If you’re new to Linux, as I am with Ubuntu, and are on a network that features multiple computers with different operating systems you’re going to want to find a way for them to talk to each other – copy files across machines, change directory structures, etcetera.  Otherwise you’ll find yourself in a position where moving files from one machine to the next requires the use of a flash drive or USB memory stick, or worse still a blank CD or DVD.
In the world of Linux and Unix, this is …

Target Audience: This guide is intended for PC users new to Linux and outlines an easy way to configure an existing Windows machine to run Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” in parallel.  It is acknowledge this may not be “dual-booting” in the true sense of the word, however from the standpoint of a new user it is considered comparable. 
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I’ve spent a great deal of time in Ubuntu lately, during which time I’ve discovered a really cool new feature in the Hardy Heron beta (v 8.04).  As ZDNet reported …