Ubuntu Linux always amazes me. It’s a great all around operating system that is free, as in free beer and freedom. Today, I needed to install an OS on an old computer whose CD rom was not working and even when replacing it out, I couldn’t get it to boot from CD. No problem, I used a PXE boot feature and loaded the complete OS off the network. Try doing that with Windows!
That’s right, eat your heart out Windows. It really demonstrates the full power of the operating system that can be harnessed and it’s just one of the amazing things you can do with Linux. I will be putting up a tutorial about this on my tech site in just a few days.
I’m not going to get in on the debate of which one is better, but I’ll just say that you can already do that with Windows, and have been able to for a while now…
You can use PXE to netbook any OS. This is exactly what corporate IT departments have been doing for many years. PXE was created by Intel and Systemsoft, which created Windows utilities. Although it was obviously written with Windows in mind, it\’s great that it\’s an open standard that can be used now for Ubuntu as well.