[ubuntu-za] Is it worth it?

[Helge Reikeras]

If you are mainly interested in testing if hardware is working before  
installing/upgrading I guess the LiveCD will also work fine.

- Helge

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:46:18 +0200, Charl Wentzel  
<charl.wentzel at vodamail.co.za> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 09:06 +0200, Ewald Horn wrote:
>
>>
>> How about running it in a virtual machine first?  I use VirtualBox
>> from SUN, but there are plenty of others out there. Ubuntu 9.10 seems
>> to be a lot better, but there's always teething problems, especially
>> with hardware drivers.
>>
> Just remember that installing an operating system in a virtual machine
> to test it on a machine, is not the same as installing it directly on a
> machine.  In a virtual machine the hardware is a "simulated machine"
> which is different from the actual machine.  So if it works on a virtual
> machine it doesn't actually mean it will work if you install it
> directly.
>
> Charl
>
>


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