On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 07:25:37AM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
Also, I need to figure out a better development platform for Windows boxes. I had a perfect opportunity to scrap Windows all together when I had to recover from a hard drive crash on my main development box last year, but the dice fell the wrong way on that one.
There are lots of options here. As mentioned, virtualbox should be a good option, and you can probably use something like wubi to create an Ubuntu desktop running along side Windows.
http://xkcd.com/424/springs to mind.
(I'm aware a fair few people are moving away from Ubuntu, in favor of Mint <http://linuxmint.com/>).
Maybe I can organize a sprint at the next PyCon - Migrating to Linux and killing Windows one PC at a time.
With a python script? ;o)
(a former friend & colleague, Chris Lightfoot[1] wrote evil.c one day; I mirror it at http://hendricks.amyl.org.uk/~adam/tmp/evil.c-txt -- to Debianize a FBSD box. Console server *highly* recommended. It worked the few times we used it)
[1] http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/wwwitter/20070305-chris_lightfoot_1978-2007....
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