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I’m a big fan of the Linux operating system, but sometimes you really need a Windows to run software that isn’t available for Linux or where isn’t any related program.
Therefore you could try WINE (which emulates the Windows API within you Linux system), you could install a virtual windows using a virtual machine like Virtual Box (which emulates a whole PC within you Linux system) or you could install a native Windows operating system side by side to you Linux. If you need the whole performance you hardware could give you, you need to install Windows on your hard drive next to you Linux installation.
Since the Windows boot loader is very restrictive regarding to having multiple operating systems the easiest way is to first install Windows and then later install your Linux system, which brings GRUB (or something similar) as a boot loader.
I first installed Ubuntu on my PC and wanted to install Windows later, so I hard to do it the hardest way:
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I'm a big fan of the Linux operating system, but sometimes you really need a Windows to run software that isn't available for Linux or where isn't any related program. Therefore you could try WINE (which emulates the Windows API within you Linux system), you could install a virtual windows using a virtual machine like ...

I have been interested in git for a while and played around with it a few times and past.

Yesterday I finally moved my two open source haXe libraries (hxJson2 and hxGD) to GitHub. (hxGD was hosted on Google Code before.) I really like the ideas of the work flow of git and seriously thinking about moving all my private Subversion repositories into git repositories, since there are well working tools to even import history and branches.

I have been interested in git for a while and played around with it a few times and past. Yesterday I finally moved my two open source haXe libraries (hxJson2 and hxGD) to GitHub. (hxGD was hosted on Google Code before.) I really like the ideas of the work flow of git and seriously thinking ...

Welcome to my blog!

After a while I decided to start a blog again and here is my first post.  (I think this is the third try, so we will see how long this experiment will  last.) Most of the blog entries will be about typical nerd and computer stuff like linux servers, programming, etc. I hope there will be some interesting topics for you.

Welcome to my blog! After a while I decided to start a blog again and here is my first post.  (I think this is the third try, so we will see how long this experiment will  last.) Most of the blog entries will be about typical nerd and computer stuff like linux servers, programming, etc. ...