Hello,
A funny thing happened to me yesterday whilst toiling on my Vista machine. I routinely download and test new Linux distribution. I simply go to distrowatch.com, select my distro and download the .iso file (I try to stay away from torrents where possible). After downloading, I burn the .iso to a CD/DVD. There is no special software required for this on Mac OS X and Linux, Fedora and Ubuntu can do this out of the box. Windows 2000/XP cannot, on those platforms I use a program called "Ultra-ISO" in concert with "Nero Burning ROM". Neither which are free programs. I was jazzed about Vista's new DVD maker utility, until I tried it...
This is what I got...
Oops, I guess there will be no .iso burning for me! The Windows DVD Maker is obviously designed for movies, and not data. Of course not, why would I want to burn data? Am I an idiot or what ???
/N
Whenever possible you should use a torrent to download your Linux distro. Is IS safe as long as you check the MD5 checksum against the intended value from the sponsors website. Dead easy in linux, you just type md5sum name-of-the-file.iso and it'll spit back a big number like fb3af44c21f1f68cc25fda7edb8c1bd3 which just happens to be ubuntu-6.06.1-desktop-i386.iso
Posted by: Trackieman | March 06, 2007 at 09:22 AM