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November 21, 2006
Getting Edgy - Moving away from Windows
I have had it with windows.
I know I have been threatening for a long time to do something about it I have still been chugging along on my development server and my main work laptop with Windows.
Well, the last windows update broke my setup and wasted three days trying to find workarounds that never panned out. Sometime during those three days I had an epiphany - I'm mad to base my business on the whims of Microsoft. Its that simple.
So I have ordered a brand new hard drive (the 80 gig I have for the system drive is getting old..) and I downloaded Ubuntu Edgy Eft.
I will be reinstalling the server OS using Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft). This will allow me to use SSH, Subversion, Trac, Apache and all the rest of the non-Microsoft applications I use the most.
I am still an ASP porgrammer by trade and my live web server is Windows so to service that I will be installing Windows 2003 as a virtual machine using VMServer. That way I have the best of one world (Linux rocks! Fuck you Ballmer!, I'm not a crook) and no headaches from the dark side. Best of all, once I install Windows into the VMServer all I have to do is snapshot it and I will never have to install the bastard again.
I should have the new hard-drive this week so I'll post up a little tutorial of any bits I found difficult.
Posted by dottie at November 21, 2006 9:40 PM
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