I played around with Ubuntu and love the hell out of it. My PC booted up way faster than XP Pro, everything ran faster, and it had everything I needed. Only problem was that I could not get ColdFusion server to install properly, and I could not use SQL Server. Fortunately I had a dual boot system so when I did CF work, I would just switch to XP Pro. When I get home, I think that my laptop is going to become an Ubuntu machine.
Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com> To: "cf-community" <cf-community@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:35 PM Subject: I am really digging Ubuntu > I've been messing around with my workstation to get it set up. > Originally it came with RedHat EL5 which lasted a couple of days > before I formatted over it. There were several little things about RH > that just didn't seem to work right. > > It took me a little bit of trial and error to set up Ubuntu because of > the mobo based raid controller I was using, but after download the > "alternate" install disk, everything went swimmingly. > > I started to download VMWare server (the free version) so that I could > run my vm's under it, but found KVM. I must say that KVM is really > kick ass. I think one of the neatest things about it is the fact that > it can be run from the command line. Want to spool up WinXp for a > quick operation: > > kvm -hda winxp.img -no-reboot > > and that will pop up a window running WinXp on your linux desktop, no > loading up a web site, clicking through different windows and then not > really knowing what's going on in the background. At first, they > weren't running near as fast as they did on vmware, but after I > realized that the cpu virtualization features were disabled in the > bios, I think the vm's might just run a little faster than vmware was > running them (I had installed vmware when RH was still on the system) > > Oh, and the wobbly windows and cube desktop can keep me entertained > for hours. > > > -- > Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead; sometimes > you're behind; the race is long, and in the end it's only with yourself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285015 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
