FC4 or Windows XP
Yesterday I decided to try out all of the ports / drives on the new laptop, and I blasted away the hard drive and installed Windows XP onto an 8GB partition. Note to all: Windows XP needs 10GB+ by the time you're done with Open Office, DVD burning, and all the applications, drivers, and virtual memory that you might need.My new laptop has a AMD 64 Athlon, and I'd like to use some of those extra bits, so I'm in the process of downloading the Stentz DVD of Fedora Core 4 for AMD x86_64. The last server I installed and setup was a dual-processing Opteron, which churns through a client's email like budda. It's awfully quick w/ SATA drives, a SCSI interface, and about 2GB of RAM.
But, I do appreciate that my stock Windows XP tends to start faster than my Fedora Core 3 (or any version of SuSE or RedHat or Fedora that I've ever tried) systems. Or, rather, it does today. It probably won't in six months, but then, it takes more than a few minutes for my Informix, PostgreSQL, Tomcat, Apache, Sendmail, Named, and X machine to start up.
So, now I have a decision to make. My primary machine has always been (for the past six or so years), Linux based. Starting w/ Redhat 7, then 9 (skipped 8), then Fedora Core 2, and now Fedora Core 3. I have, over the years, tried SuSE, Damn Small Linux, and about 10 or 20 others. But Redhat has appeared more stable over the years (I'm not sure what will happen with the SuSE/Novell packages).
Typically, under Linux I run VMWare, because most of my clients insist on some portion of their network being Windows. Sometimes, like when they have custom software that will only run on Windows, this makes sense. More often than not, the reason is "I don't like the icons" -- which doesn't make sense. Be that as it may, they are the paying customers.
So now, I'm faced with a decision:
Do I run Windows XP and do various Linux virtual hosts while using VMware, or do I run Redhat Fedora and various Windows virtual hosts?
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