Tag Archives: research

What linux will boot off of my pen drive? ive been having some trouble?

I tried to put ubuntu 10.8 on my pen drive 3 times. and it says “No OS” at boot. ive done my research and saw that i wasnt the only one with this problem

does anyone know a good linux that will boot off of a pen drive?

Im new to linux, i enjoyed Ubuntu’s live CD tho, but i need a bootable pen drive

What is the best way to run linux for academic research while maintaining WinXP on my laptop?

I am still new to linux/unix and I have been working with some fairly obscure academic research programs by SSHing to linux (Redhat and Solaris) servers through my laptop. I have had the administrators of the servers erase all my data once, and I want to have more control over my destiny. I have looked at using Live CDs/USBs, CoLinux, virtualizers, Cygwin, and dual-booting — but I don’t know which would be fast enough to run data/calculation intensive academic programs and also not make me destroy/re-install my current WinXP installation to do it.