Some days I feel like a GOD!

[cheshirenoir]

After being "drawn to the dark side" by Ubuntu I recently installed a bigger hard disk and started using Gutsy Gibbon.

One of my goals was to have only one environment to have to boot into. I hated having to reboot into Windows for the small number of Apps I couldn't run natively in Ubuntu (either via replacements or some sort of emulation layer)

So I installed VMWare Server, and wasn't that a pig to do?

The final thing I couldn't do was get printing onto CDs via my printer. Tonight I cracked it. The printer is installed under Ubuntu as a SMB mounted network which I then print to from the native CD software from within XP. And it works!

(cue maniacal laughter!)

BWAHAHA!

Comments

[fostware.livejournal.com]

Have you updated Ubuntu to run the new Compiz Fusion desktop?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ImW0-MgR8I

Let Vista do THAT!

[cheshirenoir.livejournal.com]

Fusion is default under Gutsy.

[buoy-wonder.livejournal.com]

All in all, how long did it take to get XP running in a VM?

I'm thinking of switching my work PC to Gutsy but I still need XP access.

Will probably pick your brains later tonight.

[cheshirenoir.livejournal.com]

Under Gibbon it's a bit of a pain. Took me about an hour all up

Under Feisty, I'd install automatix and then it's a one click operation.


Mind you it wen a lot smoother the second time I installed VMWare. (Had to "nuke" my OS and do a reinstall to get my SATA drives to correctly install.)

[decrypt-era.livejournal.com]

Just startd using Ubuntu myself a few months ago,
and despite tripling my memory footprint & number of processes,
i'd say i'm well pleased.
My only gripe would be that
they don't seem to go out of their way
to let th user know they'r atchely running Debian.
But all in all, i rckn Ubuntu could be Linux's killer app :)
War on a 64-bit battlefield! Go Penguins!