Today, I decided to migrate OS in my laptop. Actually, all of my works are almost based on Linux or scripting language like Python or PHP. It would be better to have Linux on my laptop instead of Windows-based machine. However, OpenOffice.org is not as mature as I expected. As a result, Windows system should be still remained some way. In fact, currently, I am running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake in VMware on Windows XP host. So, I would switch the configuration so that Ubuntu is my main operating system and Windows XP would run in virtual machine instead.

So, I have two choices: VMware or qemu. VMware seems to be better and it’s free. However, qemu is an open-source project with high potential to become more and more popular from time to time. Xen may be faster but it doesn’t support wide range architectures like qemu offered. So, I would like to try both of them to see which is the best for me.

Note that one of the major reason why I decided to migrate is Firefox. I do like Firefox. Unfortunately, the latest version 1.5.0.4 is very unstable. It crashes so often. I guess that it might be better in Linux for sure. In addition, my Windows XP instance is so slow comparing to the time I installed.

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