Just wait until somebody comes up with a Windoze worm that targets Wubi. Then whenever you boot Wubi you get the infection.
Hmm. I suppose that's not very likely. But I'm still nervous about entering a "secure" system by way of an insecure system. It just seems wrong. -- Allen Brown abrown at peak.org http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ A fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. --- William Shakespeare > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Allen Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> That is an interesting possibility. I am not trying to keep it that >> generic. Â So in that sense this would work. Â But the problem is >> that I can't test it myself. Â (I don't have a Windoze computer.) >> So I can't really support it. > > I hear you on the difficulties in supporting something you can't run > yourself. Wubi comes with warnings that it's not for production use, > or at least did. But its advantages over a live CD as a demonstration > vehicle include: [i] with Ubuntu living on hard disk rather than CD > it's much faster; and [ii] apps installed after loading don't have to > reside in memory, as with a live CD distro. So it's faster and its > configuration more durable. > > Best regards, > > Paul > > > -- > Universal Interoperability Council > <http:www.universal-interop-council.org> > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
