Ruy Rocha

The current release of OpenBSD is 4.3 (fourthree) “which was released May 1, 2008″. My desktop, an old pentium IV, gives me a higher security level when I’m outside… It, from here just called lesbian (’cause my machine love girls too), was running OpenBSD 4.2 (release) and worked fine. Since I use subversion (thanks to Razzolini) and my tree (.confs, scripts, rcs, etc) is always up-to-date, I didn’t care about its installation. I re-installed OpenBSD and got everything working again until May 1 (due to “hours fuse issues”).

I had time to download sUxbuntu 8.04 and after some time nothing happened: the motherfuckingfocker ubiquity installer crashes if I try to do a manual partitioning. Then I downloaded Kubuntu 8.04: it installs and works (points to Kubuntu’s team!!!) quite fine. I’ve decided to abandon *buntu family.

My OpenSolaris is working great and I approve (give it a try! ; ).

M$ Windows 2008 Enterprise Edition (just for eval, 60 days) is working fine too…

You can speed up your vm`s in VMware Server Console by defrag*** a virtual disk. After you got your vm running as fastest as it can, just click on VM Settings and then select Hard Disk; so, click on “Defragment” button, and wait some seconds (or minutes/hours/days… i`m just kidding).

After, the machine taked up 1min to boot. Now, it takes almost one minute, but suspend/resume time decreased from one minute to few seconds.

Please, read:

* you can’t do that if your machine is suspended, so you need to poweroff

* it won’t do any effect if you have pre-allocated the disk (works only with virtual disks, not plain or physical disks, as described here).

ps: defrag means to me the oldest procedure on win9x (scandisk, defrag, etc), when life was not too good