[UFO Chicago] Re: Brian's Conversion from FreeBSD to Debian andQuestions on X

[Christopher D. Heer]

From: Brian Sobolak 

> But before you wipe and reload, you might consider using VMWare Server 
> or VMWare player to get your feet wet.  You can download dozens of 
> different distros, and you just unzip and double-click and have a working
system.
> It definitely doesn't let you feel how the install goes, etc., but it 
> gives you  a working system pretty quickly.
> 
> And if you do switch to Linux, you can run Windows inside a VM, so 
> long as you have the original license to do so.

I actually considered this, but I'd rather wipe out my security blanket.  If
I have that VMWare "out" I'll never totally immerse myself, and if things
get rough I'll just fire up Windows.

> Linux in a nutshell and Unix power tools, two books from O'Reilly, are 
> worth the investment.  They'll help out a lot.

Thanks; I'll pick those up.

--chris