Ubuntu

Since I'm a .NET dude, you might find this post a wee bit odd, because, I should worship MS, right?... well I don't :), so in any case...

Hokay. So...

I recently made the jump to be *that* much closer to an all-unix setup [at home]. I've had my macbook now for about a year, and it's totally dope, I love it. In fact, I just got 4 gigs of ram for $35 beans from newegg.com.

The reason why I got that hot upgrade was because of the VMWare Fusion trial I had just decided to checkout.

Now, I'm very familiar with VMWare and its hotness. I used VMWare server on Ubuntu for some years as a way to tinker with a bunch of Unix and Linux OSes.

After DLing and messing around with it out for some time, (I used it at DevConnections Vegas 08) I knew that hog had to be mine! After turning my boot camped-Vista-partition into a virtual machine I soon realized that it was worth every penny. Twas always such a pain to have to reboot just to tinker with some idea in Visual Studio for five minutes. Just need to find a replacement for Texter (Spotlight is a great replacement for Launchy).

On that note.... a couple weeks ago I setup my older ASUS Pundit-R barebones machine to run the latest version of Ubuntu (8.10 as of today)... and it flies. With a P4 chip, 1 gig of ram, and some low-end NVidia card, it's totally acceptable for doing most webby stuff. I haven't rally monkeyed with Ubuntu since Dapper/Edgy, but I can say it has come a long way since I started w/Hoary.