Carry your OS in a pen drive

You can carry your OS in the pen drive. Isn’t it amazing. Most of the time it is very heavy and inconvenient to carry laptops with you. But getting a PC wherever you travels is easy these days. So What you have to do is plug in the pen drive in the PC available. Make that PC boot from pen drive by BIOS setting. and once the PC is booted enjoy the altogether all your PC with your desk tops, your documents, your database, your web server, Your web site and what not. This is possible with Linux. preferred flavor would be Ubuntu for which it is available in two flavors

1. Desktop Edition

2. Server Edition.

But the Server Edition is not provided with GUI / Xwindows. But if you want it on it Don’t worry. First install the desktop edition. and then upgrade the desktop edition to server by installing the additional packages. (This is the simplest way to do it I encountered rather that downloading Xwindows and installing it)

Steps to install Ubuntu

Ubuntu 9.04 has the self explanatory steps after inserting the CD in the drive. (Like Windows)

For older version or manual installation you can follow the following steps.

Steps in detail for old version/ manual installation 

And most of the users will be moved and attracted by the following Ubuntu promise.

The Ubuntu promise 

• Ubuntu will always be free of charge, including enterprise releases and security updates.
• Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from Canonical and hundreds of companies around the world.
• Ubuntu includes the very best translations and accessibility infrastructure that the free software community has to offer.
• Ubuntu CDs contain only free software applications; we encourage you to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.

(If you register online on the Ubuntu site and ask for the installation CD, they will send it to you free of charge. )