More adventures with VMWare

Well that Kubuntu experimentation didn’t last long.

Getting started with Kubuntu

The Ultra 40 that I won arrived on Wednesday, but I’ve been too busy since then to do much with it until now.

I have spent a little bit of time carrying out some research. My initial plan was to triple boot this server. First as a FreeBSD machine — it’s my preferred Unix flavour, my other Unix boxes run FreeBSD, and it gives me the opportunity to carry out FreeBSD testing on a 64 bit platform.

Then with Solaris 10. I want to carry on the work that I’ve already started with DTrace, and get some more experience with other Solaris technologies.

Finally, as a Windows XP box. Two reasons for this. First, Photoshop. I take quite a lot of pictures, and, not currently having a Dual Core Mac to hand, Photoshop on XP is my preferred image editing system. I also have something of a workflow built around it. The other reason is games. I don’t get much opportunity, but when it arises I can quite happily while away the time playing Half Life 2.

That’s not quite what happened.