Ubuntu and VMWare
I installed Ubuntu today on a VMWare... I know, it must be Ubuntu's day, Matt blogged about his experience too. I'm not as extremist and not a M$ hater... I installed it on a VM machine using VMWare Workstation. Ubuntu comes with Open Office, Firefox, Gaim, so you're almost ready to go. I installed Eclipse, CFEclipse, Aptana, XMLBuddy, and IE6. heh, I know what you thinking, but Adobe only provide a Flash 7 release for linux, so I installed Wine and IE6+Flash9... mostly for Flash 9 support. I will probably only use it for my Flex Development.
I still haven't been able to modify my screen resolution to support wide 1440x900px. I'm sure I'll find a way tomorrow.
I'm also looking fw to try to connect Ubuntu to my exchange server this week ... if I can do that successfully it would be a big plus. I also need itunes, or a way to manage my ipod... Anyways, I've only played with it a few hours... more to come soon.
http://www.robgonda.com/blog/trackback.cfm?4F6A3B8A-3048-7431-E41D66B4E1FD5081
And I have some issues with my screen settings as well. Though it lets me switch to the desired 1600*1200, it doesn't remember the settings (refresh rate incl.) after reboot. Quite annoying. And lots of flickers and artifacts, even on 60Hz.
Anyways, I remember that you have to hack the monitor/screen setting in Xconf somehow to force it to your screen resolution.
I recently installed VMWare and Ubuntu Edgy on my Windows XP PC and just for the heck of it I was curious if Evolution would connect to our Exchange server at work. It appears to use MAPI and the OWA connection but after a few tweaks it worked! My calendar was a bit off but I didn't dig into the settings too much so that might have been fixable. I could send/recv email as well. Very slick. In theory I could dual-boot this machine and just use Ubuntu - but I haven't run that by our System Admins (yet) :)