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  2. Wubi (software) - Wikipedia

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    Wubi ("Windows-based Ubuntu Installer") is a free software Ubuntu installer, that was the official Windows-based software, from 2008 until 2013, [2] to install Ubuntu from within Windows, to a single file within an existing Windows partition. After installation, it added a new "Ubuntu" option to the existing Windows boot menu which allowed the ...

  3. List of Linux adopters - Wikipedia

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    DukeJets LLC (USA) and Duke Jets Ltd. (Canada), air charter brokerage companies, switched from Windows to Ubuntu Linux in 2012. [146] Banco do Brasil, the biggest bank in Brazil, has moved nearly all desktops to Linux, except some corporate ones and a few that are need to operate some specific hardware. They began migration of their servers to ...

  4. List of data-erasing software - Wikipedia

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    Supported wipe methods Reports BleachBit: Andrew Ziem and contributors GNU General Public License: Windows, Linux: Yes external [1] on screen, Copy and Paste-able CCleaner: Piriform: Trialware: Windows, OS X: Yes external [2]? Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) Darik Horn GNU General Public License: OS independent, based on Linux: No external [3]? dd ...

  5. Laptops for less: How I saved big on a computer the Ubuntu way

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    I live in Portland, Oregon, where open source is not just the favored software methodology but a way of life. Yet despite my buddies sporting their Linux user group laptop stickers, I was ...

  6. Darik's Boot and Nuke - Wikipedia

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    Darik's Boot and Nuke, also known as DBAN / ˈ d iː b æ n /, is a free and open-source project hosted on SourceForge. [2] The program is designed to securely erase a hard disk until its data is permanently removed and no longer recoverable, which is achieved by overwriting the data with pseudorandom numbers generated by Mersenne Twister or ISAAC.

  7. Data erasure - Wikipedia

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    [24] It recommends cryptographic erase as a more general mechanism. According to the University of California, San Diego Center for Magnetic Recording Research's (now its Center for Memory and Recording Research) "Tutorial on Disk Drive Data Sanitization" (p. 8): "Secure erase does a single on-track erasure of the data on the disk drive. The U ...

  8. Ubuntu - Wikipedia

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    Ubuntu (/ ʊ ˈ b ʊ n t uː / ⓘ uu-BUUN-too) [8] is a Linux distribution derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software. [9] [10] [11] Ubuntu is officially released in multiple editions: Desktop, [12] Server, [13] and Core [14] for Internet of things devices [15] and robots.

  9. Live CD - Wikipedia

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    Installation from Ubuntu 23.04 live CD. All computers except the earliest digital computers are built with some form of minimal built-in loader, which loads a program or succession of programs from a storage medium, which then operate the computer. Initially a read-only medium such as punched tape or punched cards was used for initial program load.