My Linux past
over the past few years i have wanted to try and use Linux, the first time was i bout a retail box of Mandrake Linux i installed it on a spare computer and i got most of it working, but at the time i still had dial-up internet and i could not get the win-modem to function so with no internet i really couldn't use it full time.a year or so later i bought a retail box of red-hat it was suppose to have good winmodem compatibility and it did actually work with my modem so with the internet and most of the GNU programs i could do 90% of what my computer usually does, Except play games.
now in late '07 i started to see a lot more linux around with the EEEPC from Asus the $200 walmart computer i again wanted to see if linux could replace windows even if only on a spare machine.
Ubuntu Gusty Gibbon
i downloaded the Ubuntu 7.10 iso at about 700meg it is just one CD but i have a bunch of DVD-RW i never use so i decided to burn it to one of those and if i ended up not liking linux again then i could erase the thing and not be out a 25cent disc =}
i have Virtual PC running on my windows computer so i decided to try and install on that first and see if there is any setup mistake i can get out of the way on the Virtual machine before wasting time on my spare comupter i will install linux on later.
Virtual PC sucks
I tried installing it on VirtualPC but every time it booted it would go into a weird screen resolution and look all striped and distorted i tried booting with safe VGA and telling linux use 800x600 but ever time i got to the GUI it would try its stupid resolution again. i tried install some other linux distoros just to see if it was Ubuntu. i tries Damn small linux it did the same thing and i tried gOS and it did the same thing so i gave up on the whole virtual Linux install, for a little while.
Enter VMWare
after a less then stellar experience with Virtual PC i was watching a podcast called ITidiots and they where using VMware after "slagging off" on Virtual PC and saying how much better VMware is i deside to download a trial of it and see.
VMWare differences
thats all for now. I will try and post more on this when i have used linux for little longer.
Most of this post was made inside linux.
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