Open source virtualization software + repositories for Feisty, Edgy, and Dapper = much happiness
VirtualBox's UI is very much like VMWare's, sans the nastiness with the reconfiguring VMWare every time you upgrade your kernel. Did I mention that it's free (for personal use, anyway)? Good performance too.

After zeroing the free space on my Windows partition (yay SDelete!), I rebooted into Linux and tried to run my backup again. (I forgot to defrag). End result?

184329747+0 records in
184329747+0 records out
94376830464 bytes (94 GB) copied, 6423.39 seconds, 14.7 MB/s
~$ ls -lh backup.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.3G 2006-11-01 21:45 backup.bz2
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So... 12+ hours after I first started my backup, my unfinished "compressed" backup was 75g (partition is 88g), so I just gave up. I guess I'll try again later - I have a script that scans and all that good stuff for me now.

But something cool I found - Ubuntu Edgy ships with AIGLX! And the new NVidia beta drivers for Linux are awesome, if ( Read more... )