Before this, I have talked about installing the greatest Linux distribution Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 here. Alternatively, you can use VirtualBox to install Ubuntu 8.04 under your windows environment.
VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a X86 virtualization software package developed by Sun Microsystems Inc. You can get VirtualBox for free since it is released under GPL license. Click here to go to the download page.
Requirements
- Intel or AMD processor.
- 1 GB of Memory. 512 MB will work but you might experience bad performance.
- Enough free hard disk space.
- A supported host operating system. Windows (primarily XP) or Linux distributions on 32-bit hosts and on 64-bit hosts. (Support for Mac OS X is currently in development)
- A supported guest operating system. Click here to check the list.
You can check the tutorial on how to install Ubuntu 8.04 using VirtualBox here. This graphical tutorial will show you steps that you need to follow to get Ubuntu 8.04 works under Windows Vista.
For those who want to try Ubuntu but don’t want to leave your windows for some reasons, you might want to check this tutorial by Robert Cain. This step by step tutorial will teach you how to setup and install the latest Ubuntu 8.04 using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.
Requirements
- You need to have Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 installed obviously. If you don’t have virtual pc, you can get it at Microsoft website for free. Click here to get Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
- Ubuntu 8.04 iso image.To get Ubuntu 8.04, go to Ubuntu official website to download the iso image. Click here to go to download page.
Thats all you need to run Ubuntu 8.04 without leaving your windows environment. If you are ready to give a try, click here to read the tutorial. Good luck.
Skype 2.0 for Linux has been released on March 13, 2008. So, this is not a something new anymore.
Today we’re proud to announce the general release of video calls in Skype 2.0 for Linux. As you may already know, the best things in life are often free and now you can make (and receive) free, great quality video calls on Linux.
Last week, I didn’t have time to install Skype 2.0 since I was busy doing my assignments and project. So today, when I power up my laptop and boot to Ubuntu, the update manager is notifying me that there are software updates available. I clicked on the notify icon and the update manager windows showed up. I looked on the list of updates available and Skype was in there. So I just clicked on install updates. The system started installing the updates and after a while, I got this error.
E:/var/cache/apt/archives/skype-common_2.0.0.63-0medibuntu0.7.10.1_all.deb:trying to overwrite `/etc/dbus-1/system.d/skype.conf’, which is also in package skype
So, I search on the internet and this is the way to solve this problem.
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