I'm really looking forward to BarCamp Frankfurt this weekend. It's my first BarCamp, but I'm sure that it will be very inspiring and fun. I will meet a couple of fellow bloggers there as well as a lot of other interesting people, hopefully. It's going to ease my pain about losing my linux box this morning after a not so successful update to Feisty Fawn. Well, actually it's just not booting anymore, and I hope that I can fix it - but I can't access most of my data right now and maybe will have to reinstall the system. But enough of worst case scenarios for now!
Because I frequently find myself thinking about updating to Kubuntu Feisty Fawn though it's still in testing, but don't want to break a running system on the other hand, I decided to install the current Herd 4 release (of Ubuntu, without the "K") on my Windows box using the VMware Player. This turned out to be quite easy following John Bookma's instructions. Only two things I had to do was downloading QEMU for Windows increasing the size of the virtual disk to more than 2 GB (I chose 5 GB). Once I booted into Ubuntu, I simply double-clicked on the installer icon, went through the installation process, virtually rebooted, and up and running it was. Currently, I'm updating a huge list of packages, but up to now everything worked flawlessly and pretty fast on my dual core Pentium 4 2.8 GHz. Next I want to check out some of the new features built into Feisty. I just love Ubuntu.