In case anyone’s paying attention, here’s where I’m at in my attempt to be a computer geek.

I’ve ordered up a new desktop after having been running laptop only for over two years. Quickly, it’s details are:

• 2 GB fast RAM.
• 2 x 320 GB drives.
• Intel board and processor.
• nVidia video card with dual heads.

All parts are fancy pants parts, ie respected brands, so it’s not cheap but it’s still a great deal, especially compared to a laptop.

I’m now planning to start with fedora 6 and try Xen and VMWare to virtualize a windows desktop for development purposes. I’m going to start with xen as it’s built into the kernal and uses paravirtualization. Certainly, I’ll use xen for any linux based virtualization but I don’t see doing much of that. Hopefully windows will work nicely as well, if not I’ll move to vmware.

Other stuff, I want to setup a software based RAID-1 array. My plan, at this point, is to use this desktop as my workstation when at my desk. As well, it will be used for some file serving purposes on our home network. When I need to be remote, including within my house, I will do one of the following:

• ssh into the desktop.
• remote desktop into my virtualized windows machine on the desktop.
• bring a copy of my virtualized windows machine with me for use on my laptop.

I intend to quickly move my laptop to fedora as well. As well, I’m going to give Mono a serious look for windows development in fedora. In terms of databases, I may just run a small virtualized windows machine on my network for sql only. Or I’ll just use MySQL, code primarily in fedora, and do all my final testing in windows.

So basically, still a lot of crap to test.

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