Ubuntu installer, for Windows!? and Flash 9?
OK, when I read that there was an Ubuntu installer for Windows I didn’t know what I should think of it. Today I downloaded the installer and tried it out. The installation went fine, although it’s still very beta. From the looks of things a very small BitTorrent client is included which downloads the actual Ubuntu installation CD and then bunzips it. Then several files are created in your C:/ubuntu/ like a ubuntu image file, swap file etc. After that the installer gave me errors, since it seems it requires GRUB to be installed. Well it’s a great project, but I don’t think a lot of people have GRUB on their system or want it there (or at least not Windows users).
At about the same time Flash 9 for linux was officially released by Adobe which is a great thing for the entire community. I’m not a Flash fan, but since a lot of websites use it, you have to make sacrifices. “If you can’t beat them, join them.” It shouldn’t take too long before the first official Flash 9 Ubuntu .deb packages should arrive. Finally no more nagging about ‘nasty’ Flash sites and applications that don’t work, because they should. Now let’s hope Flash 10 for Windows arrives at the same time as it would arrive for Linux…