Archive for May, 2009

For a while now I’ve wanted to use Linux. To be honest, I’ve wanted to swith over entirely to it in some ways, as a matter of principle as much as anything else. The upshot of all this was that I bought a magazine with a live CD distribution of Kubuntu. That’s to say I bought a CD which would run it without needing to be installed on my computer. I tried it, liked it, but found it a bit slow – not only was my computer at the time slow, but Live CDs work out of RAM, and are only as good as its speed. My experimenting with Linux went on like this for a while, but it’s never come to fruition.

Yesterday, however, was to prove a day of minor discoveries. I’ve toyed with the idea of using a virtual machine to run Linux in, and when I got my new computer a month and a half ago, I decided to download VirtualBox, which is the software which does all sorts of fancy things to allow you to run a computer inside another computer. Where is this entry going? I hear you ask. Well, there’s no bread in it, and I have no intention of including Sammy Wilson either…

To cut a (very) long story short, I am now running two operating systems, on the same computer, at the same time. Pretty useless, really, but it looks clever, and keeps me idealogically happy.