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Ubuntu Windows Installer Gets a Second Chance at Ubuntu Developer Summit

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http://news.softpedia.com – Wubi is a tool made by Canonical and it's the Ubuntu Windows Installer. It wasn't all that popular and there were even rumors about discontinuing it, but now it seems that it could be updated and improved. When Canonical released Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), they went after Windows 8 with a powerful slogan, “Avoid the pain of Windows 8.” What are they doing for the people who already have a Windows operating system. Canonical developed Wubi (Windows in... (read more) (General)

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Wubi (Windows-based Ubuntu Installer), a tool developed by Canonical to make it easier for Windows users to adopt the Ubuntu operating system, will be discontinued.

Developers from Canonical have stated that the Wubi tool is in pretty bad shape and that it shouldn't be included in the Ubuntu 13.04 release schedule.

A few major bugs have been identified in the software.

Canonical is making a push with Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) and they are not pulling any punches, especially when it comes to promoting the operating system. Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) was launched today, October 18th, and, as usual, people flocked to Canonical official website to download the latest version.

I'm using Windows 8 (32bit) customer preview and installing WUBI Ubuntu 12,04.1. I down loaded 32 bit installer from ubuntu dot com, The wubi installer says AMD 64 xt. I had a previous 12,04 install and in the terminal typed in uname -a, it say's 64 bit. I also opened detail from the system and it read 64 bit system.

I'm using Windows 8 (32bit) customer preview and installing WUBI Ubuntu 12,04.1. I down loaded 32 bit installer from ubuntu dot com, The wubi installer says AMD 64 xt. I had a previous 12,04 install and in the terminal typed in uname -a, it say's 64 bit. I also opened detail from the system and it read 64 bit system.

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I'm trying to dual boot ubuntu 12.10 alongside windows 8. I tried to use wubi windows installer to install ubuntu. Now when I restart my laptop it reports some problem with "File: \ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.mbr". However i'm still able to login to windows 8 but not ubuntu.

Is it possible to install ubuntu with the help of wubi installer on windows 7 home basic(Sony Vaio) which is having 2 GB RAM, 320 GB hard disk, i3 intel second generation processor?????

Is there any BSOD error while installing using wubi? If there is any precautions please let me know. I love to use ubuntu and windows 7 simultaneously...Thanks for any help provided..

I upgraded my PC from Windows 7 to Windows 8, and wanted to reinstall Ubuntu onto the windows filesystem via wubi. However, I read in many places that Windows 8 causes many new problems with the installation through WUBI, and doesn't work on computers pre-installed with Windows 8 because of a problem in the BiOS or something of that sort. Does it work on computers that were upgraded to Windows 8?

I installed an older version of Ubuntu before with the Wubi installer. I then did an upgrade of the Ubuntu to the latest 11.10 version but this did not work well. Icons were missing in Ubuntu and it was pretty messed up (with no option to shut down Ubuntu etc.). I therefore completely uninstalled ubuntu from within Windows 7 64 bit and downloaded the new Ubuntu 11.10 Wubi.exe.

Ultime news dai developer di Canonical: a poco meno di un mese dal rilascio della stable release di Ubuntu 13.04 infatti ci arrivano delle novità riguardo due software che dovevano essere inclusi all’interno della prossima stable release, ma che per vari motivi saranno tagliatori fuori. Si tratta di Wubi e della funzionalità di Unity chiamata Smart Scopes.