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need a quick ubuntu on your (32bit) windows box? i recently installed portable ubuntu which turns out to be much more exciting than i thought:
technically, it is just an application running on top of win instead of your vbox/vmware virtualization solution. that means: it boots quicker, needs less ram and most importantly, integrates nicely into your desktop.

bonus: it comes as one-click-install and after booting, has your ntfs partition already mounted. of course, it still is a ubuntu, so “apt-get install mysql” still is your friend.

awesome!

unfortunately, due to driver signing restrictions it wont run on 64bit.