Tonight I've reached OS bliss. A merging of worlds has combined the best, and worst, of three operating systems and placed them lovingly onto one beautiful terminal.

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Maybe some clarification is in order. I installed Fedora Core 3 on the old bitter pill server, the one I lugged back from Minneapolis in a large suitcase, the one that was searched and fondled lovingly by security at MSP airport. I imagine a large metal case with circuit boards embedded in a suitcase wrapped in laundry can be a tad bit suspicious. This machine is to be my new home Linux server/workstation/mp3-arama. I currently have a g4 Mac, an Athalon 1 gig windows XP machine and an old red hat linux server running in my house. Three in total blowing heat and dust around my office.

The new fedora machine will replace the old linux box, and then, stealing a great idea from Brian (as if I ever have any good ideas of my own), I opted to run vmware on the new linux machine. Vmware, if you don't already know, is a x86 emulator. It allows you to run a virtual x86 machine and load other operating system on it, such as Windows XP. So, I get to kill two birds with one stone. I saved the larger of the stones to kill my old windows machine, and now I have one machine to run both linux and windows, mainly linux. I need windows to run an ancient version of Quickbooks Pro, and to do some IE testing and such.

But wait, here comes the best and and most technically boring part of the story. After getting the new machine up and running with linux and a vmware virtual instance of windows, I got an idea. X windows is a network windowing protocol, and OS X has an X windows server. If I could be smart, or just plain lucky, I could run my linux X windows session over the network on my mac. And wait, then I could run a virtual vmware windows session in linux over X on my mac terminal. One terminal to rule them all!

note: if none of what was said above makes any sense to you, you probably have a life and a boy and/or girl friend, so don't worry about it.

I now have all three operating systems lovingly nested under one terminal hosted by OS X. And they all lived happily ever after.

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