Jason Sidabras

I have found a lot of backup solutions out there on the web. Some of them seem great but they are locked into some format. One such solution came with the YellowMachine that I purchased for work. This was Dantz Retrospect Software. But before I get into what that particular software package was lacking let me talk about the YellowMachine. It is a quaint little bright yellow box with four 250 GB IDE harddrives (RAID 5) in it. Arm processor and with the YellowMachine image it runs Debian. This is all well and good but as a backup server I would feel much more comfortable with OpenBSD. But hey, you all seen that coming. After a significant amount of time trying to figure out how I can exchange the debian image for my own image (be it Debian or oBSD) I decided to uninstall all of the unneeded services and apt-get my way to being fully updated.

Learned lesson: Build your own from scratch.
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So It seems I am not as crazy as I initially thought. There is a good quick article with screenshots showing three (3) ways to run Windows XP/Vista on OSX. As I talked about last time, virutalization will be key in the next roundup of the “OS Wars”. With Novell and RHat doing it, now comes Fedora and Ubuntu. (As I mentioned with Xen + Intel’s VM chips it’s trivial).
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