Hi !

[R. Wood]

Allegedly, on Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:16:12AM -0300, Doooh_Head stated:
[snip]
> I have wondered if I could get away with installing it on my
> development machine here at work, but all of our customers are
> entrenched in the Microsoft world, so it would be difficult for me to
> get away from having all of that stuff available to me.  Most of my
> work revolves around SQL Server as well, so not having that would be
> bad, and even though alot of people here would also be interested in
> switching, our Sysadmin, though again he would be accomodating to
> doing it, would concede that the headaches involved in doing the
> switch would be too great of a loss to the company ( as far as
> development time), to do.
[snip]

It certainly makes sense that if your job depends on developing in
another OS/environment, then you probably want that OS available to you
:-)

I thought I would mention another option though.  A product called
'VMware Server' has recently been released at no-cost (though not yet
open source).  Once installed it allows you to run another OS
simultaneously, within a so-called 'virtual machine'.

For example, in a previous job I ran Debian GNU/Linux as my primary OS,
then installed VMware, and then installed Windows98 in a virtual
machine.  It worked quite well, and it amused me to see W98 running in
its little bubble, *inside* Linux :-)  Of course in your situation you
would probably want to make d0ze your primary OS, install VMware server
there, and then try installing Ubuntu in the virtual machine.

Some ideas...
Have Fun with GNU/Linux,
Raymond