Presentation of the project:
- What it is
- How it works
- How it is implemented
- How to contribute
- Future plans
About Instlux:
Instlux is a collaborative project hosted on sourceforge that
simplifies the Linux installation on a Windows system.
Its main contribution is that it makes the installation easier by
avoiding the BIOS configuration step. That is, with instlux, a Windows
user can install linux without configuring the BIOS and so without
booting from the DVD/CDROM.
Instlux has been translated into 20 languages: albanian, catalan, czech,
danish, dutch, finnish, french, german, indonesian, italian, lithuanian,
polish, portuguese, brasilian, romanian, spanish, swedish, turkish, ...
It supports two distributions, Ubuntu and OpenSuSE.
Instlux is one year old. During this year, it has been downloaded 50000
times. There are 40 pages that link to the project web page, and more
than 127000 references to it[1].
Opinions about it:
"This is an amazingly cool idea. " by Cody Somerville, Canadian ubuntu
team member, Xubuntu users admin, Ubuntu marketing team
"Instlux the fifth columnist .exe file that installs GNU/Linux
(Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and other distros to come) from MS Windows. A
must-have in less than five years that is already built and working" by
Quim Gil, organizer of the Guadec 2006 and Maemo product manager at
Nokia's OSSO Team.
