Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

Windows is “gone”…

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As some of you know, I’ve upgraded my home pc to Ubuntu 8.10. It’s doing what it should do, and probably better than it did with Windows Vista. Now I’ve also upgraded my company laptop from Windows XP to Ubuntu. My laptop crashed for the second time in 3 months, some weird registry corruption… I was really sick of it, so I wiped it completely, installed Ubuntu and a whole bunch of cool apps.

At VMware we’ve got a company virtual machine which holds all the company apps one would need so I installed VMware workstation. Added a second disk to the VM for my documents, which also makes it easy to backup my documents every once in a while!

Thanks Ubuntu, and if you’ve never looked into Ubuntu, download the live CD and just try it out. It’s free, and easy to setup… it’s a live CD so you don’t need to wipe your system to actually try it!

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  2. giacy says

    Welcome Duncan stay away from windows I work with OSX from the 10.1 version and I am very happy.

    Giacy

  3. Erik Bussink says

    Duncan,

    I’ve installed Samba on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux laptop, so that my “Work” VM running Windows uses an host only interface to get to my ‘own’ samba server. I know my documents are safe under Linux. And if Windows corrupts… I take my cloned backup and put it back on the laptop.

    I’m also running the LCM client natively on my laptop. Still hoping (been since 2004) that VMware will release a native VI Client for Linux (and OS X for you guys…).

    I’m doing Consultancy, and therefore need a stable machine, something that Linux can provide me…

  5. Sebastian says

    Duncan, great news ofcourse. I’m looking forward to hear about your experiences with VMware workstation on Ubuntu. There is a new NetworkManager in Intrepid Ibex (8.10), a tabbed Nautilus and more, enjoy. You know how to contact me 😉

    For the Windows users out there, there is also http://wubi-installer.org/ (which is included on the Ubuntu Desktop live CD’s) with which you can try Ubuntu (including installing etc.) without having to repartition your disk. This will not have the real native-install performance, but it comes quite close (and it’s a lot faster than the live cd)

  7. Dave Convery says

    Duncan –
    Cangrats on dumping winders! I also have Ubuntu 8.10 – just upgraded from 8.041. Been running since February. The only time I start a Winders VM is when I need to run the VI client or do some PowerShell / VI toolkit stuff. On day I will get .net and the client running through wine….
    Dave