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Last time, I have told you about an amazing software called EasyBCD. It is a boot manager editor software which gives you a easy to use interface to customize your boot loader. Its just not a boot manager configuration tool, but it also comes with the plop boot manager built in with it.

So what is the advantage of having plop boot manager?You can read about plop boot manager here.

Today I have learned a great lesson from internet. I am using a 4 year old computer. I have recently came to know that it does not support booting from usb. I wanted to test so many linux distros. I have used Virtual Box before. But I was not not satisfied in trying the various distros in a VM. The interesting changes happening in the linux world urged me to test them in real environment rather than a VM.

Ubuntu 11.04 is switching to unity and gnome is shifting to gnome shell. I wanted to  try these myself. But there is a problem. The Ubuntu unity and gnome shell does not work on a VM. It will switch to classsic gnome in unity and gnome without the new gnome shell in  gnome 3 in a VM. And much more, these are extremely slow in a VM. This was really irritating to me and I wanted to test them using a bootable usb image. But my pc does not support booting from usb.