..My seemingly endless distrohopping.
If anyone’s got some tips how to stop hopping, please do share them! 
Anywhoo I’m back to Ubuntu.
Gnome with Dust Sand theme. Still need to install vmware server 2 on the laptop, so I can study Windows servers + networking and AD and WSUS and Exchange and all the other buggy stuff. Vmware server 2 is good in the sense that it actually shares the NAT between virtual machines, unlike VirtualBox. Otherwise I’d use that. Vmware server 2 is fast run through a local net too, no mentionable lag as I first suspected there would be. Anyhow I’m just rambling, I’ll get back to my whiskey on the rocks now.
Thanks for reading.
Got to stop…
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magnusium
Jacob 3:44 pm on May 24, 2009 Permalink
The art of distrohopping is driven by curiosity, to see what’s up next. One of the solutions you already are using: Virtualbox. I prefer the Sun-version rather than the one in the Ubuntu repos:
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian jaunty non-free
A 2nd alternative (If you prefer KDE and everything new) is to use Arch with KDEmod. Then you will have the latest KDE and Kernel ++ always thus no need to switch distro to keep up to date
magnusium 5:44 pm on May 24, 2009 Permalink
Hi there, yes, using virtualbox is an option, tried moblin today actually using just that. Arch + KDEMod is sweet, but right now I find myself using openSuSE 11.1 + KDE 4.3 Beta from the Factory repositories, and 11 x86_64 is updating on this laptop that used to run Fedora 10 just a few hours ago.
This ATi card on the laptop is getting more and more difficult to keep in check, no recent distro since ubu 8.10 and fedora 10 wants to play nice with it. Looking into some older distros for that reason.