I’ve blogged previously about how I hate dual boot configurations. I prefer the safer alternative, running a virtual machine on your parent system, running virtually whatever OS you want inside this VM.
I chanced upon Virtualbox as a good free alternative to Virtual PC 2007. Installed, booted up an ISO of Ubuntu 8.10 and after a bit of tweaking, this was the result. Efficient utilization of the dual monitor setup, if you look at the screenshot. The only flipside, I had a memory Utilization of about 2.14GB with Vista and Ubuntu running side by side. Processor Utilization was a measly 15% on the XPS.

For all you Virtual Machine junkies out there, check out VirtualBox, highly recommended!

One of my best investments to date. a Samsung SyncMaster 2243NWX Widescreen LCD monitor. It is by all means, HUGE. Check out pics below for the screen estate available, the example being the page you’re looking at right now. Read more »