{"id":225,"date":"2009-03-26T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=225"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:35:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:35:27","slug":"linux-on-the-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Linux on the Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the unfortunate events surrounding my presentation at XML Prague (a fabulous event, by the way; you should have been there), I now run <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Debian GNU\/Linux<\/span> as my primary OS on my work laptop. There is a Windows XP partition, so far, but my plan is to use <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Xen<\/span> and virtualisation, and run the Windows operating systems as <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Xen domains<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The laptop installation that failed contained my first attempts at virtualisation, by the way. Microsoft&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Virtual PC<\/span> ran <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Windows 2003 Server<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Cassis<\/span>, the Document Management System that I&#8217;m part of developing at <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Condesign Operations Support<\/span>, and was connected to my XP installation through a loopback adapter. In theory, this is a very nice setup since it is possible to simply run a complete image of an OS and the server setup as part of a demonstration and then reset it to its pre-demo state for the next show. In practice, however, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Virtual PC<\/span> does not deliver. The hardware it emulates is very limited and everything it does is rather slow. It was enough to wet my appetite, however (together with my friend Niklas&#8217; obsession with <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Xen<\/span>), so I decided to do it right, now that I had to wipe the old drive anyway.<\/p>\n<p>My <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Debian<\/span> installation does not yet run a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Xen<\/span> kernel, but I&#8217;ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the unfortunate events surrounding my presentation at XML Prague (a fabulous event, by the way; you should have been there), I now run Debian GNU\/Linux as my primary OS on my work laptop. There is a Windows XP partition, so far, but my plan is to use Xen and virtualisation, and run the Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,28,166,175,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}