October 2009

Windows 7 first reaction

Submitted by Eric Fouarge on Fri, 10/16/2009 - 15:32

So I've installed Windows 7 in a virtual machine and I have to say so far I absolutely love it.  I got to admit I've only been running it for a couple hours but normally it takes 2 - 3 hours to migrate all your "configuration settings" into a new Windows OS.  Microsoft has finally hit the nail on the head with this release.  So far it's just a solid clear installation and not obstructive to your working environment.   I will be installing it on a few of my systems here in the next few days and should have a better idea how much I like it.

Upgrade Virtualbox 3.0.6 to 3.0.8 on Fedora 11

Submitted by Eric Fouarge on Sat, 10/17/2009 - 05:31

Since I've been running Fedora 11 exclusively on my primary laptop since everything I need to work works perfectly in this environment I have ditched VMWare Workstation and have taken Sun's Virtualbox which by the way works quite smoothly if you ask me.  Installation was quite easy, but sometimes people get thrown off base when you have to upgrade software in the Linux environment.  So here's the quick walkthrough of upgrading your Virtualbox installation

Open a terminal window and run the following commands:

(32bit OS install)