Tuesday August 01, 2006

Dual booting pain - looking for online RSS reader recommendations I have been in the unfortunate position of dual-booting my laptop. As many of you know, I prefer Solaris as my desktop. My customers often require me to boot windows to run various software applications. Unsurprisingly, many of those applications are based on standards but only run on Windows. Hrumph. Needless to say, I have been booting Windows more than Solaris of late. Sigh.

I want to run Solaris as my host OS. That leaves out VMWare. I could run QEmu, but without the Accelerator, it's slow going. Plus, I would have to go out and buy another copy of Windows to replace the copy I already have a license for. Those darn Windows restore programs make it painful to restore to virtual machines. I could install Ubuntu and run VMWare for Solaris and Windows, but I really don't want to re-partition ... again! Hmmm, I wonder if I could boot Ubuntu off my USB drive. Regardless, it would require buying another copy of an OS that is already owned.

I've been a bit slow blogging partially because my RSS reader, Sage, manages my feed list. That resides on my Solaris partition. There is a FAT32 shared partition, but now is a good time to check out what's new online. I do have a Bloglines account, but I haven't logged in to that in roughly a year, and haven't seriously used it in two years. Since it's been a while, I am looking for recommendations for online RSS feed readers. I am sure a lot has changed in over a year.
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