Linux woes

[Angrboda]

It wasn't any one thing, Syn. The Xen was in the mix, but there were a bunch of little factors, including my current financial outlook and "Because I want to."

I sat on it for a day, debating, and basically satisficed. $250 is a cheap upgrade, gets me an extra box, and I figured I faced a better chance of not spending the money and regretting it, than spending it and regretting spending the money.

Course, this means I probably won't be upgrading to a 10" tablet, but them's the breaks.

And I'm getting too old for this shit. I don't keep up with tech anymore, and I don't want to spend a lot of energy figuring out new shit these days. I don't think I'll regret going with Xen, but then I'm kind of new to virtualization. I ran my firewall in a VM for a number of years, but that's the extent of it. I need a Win7 platform, preferably a place I can run 16 bit shit, a *nix for the freebies, and a few virtual appliance apps (like the web browser). I've got a lot to learn about it, and not knowing any better, I figured Xen was a good direction to go. I'll defer to your wisdom in the matter if you care to share it, but I don't see any down side to it, and plenty of up. (I'll have to look into it, but I'm wondering if my video card will run native under the different oses under Xen, and whether I'll be able to use ZFS if I decide to run OpenSolaris. Like I said, I have a lot to learn. This is very much a work in progress.)

Now I need to figure if I want to turn the old box into a DVR. I will only have cable tv for a few more months, but I wanted an htpc for better content management than provided by my WD TV Live. I seem to be converging on multiple paths to the same goal, heedless of the excess cost. I've got my WD TV appliance, but I also just spent about $20 upgrading my video for the workstation so I can run HDMI direct to the TV.