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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 ...

Back in the days where I used Windows having video and audio conversations with Skype was really easy. Just plug in all the devices and configure the volume of the microphone and you are done.

Today I tried the same with my Ubuntu 10.04 installation and I encountered a few problems. This is how I got my webcam working with Skype: continue reading…

Back in the days where I used Windows having video and audio conversations with Skype was really easy. Just plug in all the devices and configure the volume of the microphone and you are done. Today I tried the same with my Ubuntu 10.04 installation and I encountered a few problems. This is how I got my ...

A while ago I used VMware server to running a few virtual instances for testing purposes. Everything worked really flawless. Yesterday I wanted to have some virtual server on my home computer again and encountered many problem with the current version of VMware Server on my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
There where some problems with the installation, some to get the VMware console running and also a few the keyboard input on the console.

It took a while to get everything running and I pulled all the information I needed from many different sites. So pulled them all together in this blog entry: continue reading…

A while ago I used VMware server to running a few virtual instances for testing purposes. Everything worked really flawless. Yesterday I wanted to have some virtual server on my home computer again and encountered many problem with the current version of VMware Server on my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. There where some problems with the ...