It was a pretty rough night last night. I'm not sure where the half & half insomnia came from, but... Thrashing around for half the night, desperate to go back to sleep is no way to spend your time...
At some point during some vague catnap, I found myself wondering if all of this was running in virtual, or was an actual boot run...
I'm spending entirely too much time with these damned computers...
My VirtualBox experimentation sort of came and went. I did play with a couple OS's I downloaded, but I deleted them after the test run. The "specific OS" I wanted to try was NextStep 3.3, which someone had put together for VmWare Fusion. However, I never did get the package unarchived, even after downloading the "appropriate software. At that point, it really lost its relevancy to me, so I did some other experimenting, and then chucked the lot.
I still haven't done anything with WINE yet.
I did, on a whim, do a frugal install of Saluki 023 on my Thinkpad X60s, replacing Mint 13 (Mate). While Mint was solid as a rock, and performed like a champ, Saluki is simply a screamer. I did the install, did some customization (including installing the "Celtic" mouse pointer, which is bizarrely cool), and downloaded/installed Flashplayer and the Firefox .SFS. (I will have to install LibreOffice later on, so I can copy over some work files I had from Mint.) By this point last night, my dog was glaring at me, demanding to know, "Are you EVER going to go to bed???"
At the moment, I'm running my 32 GB Saluki stick on my T60, where it's a stunning performer as well. (Though the underlying CrunchBang install on the hard drive is in no danger. It's too much of a screamer, itself.) Just installed LibreOffice here, and did some desktop cleanup.
So, I'm going to try to slowly ease off the system tonight, and hopefully get a decent night's sleep.
Without worrying about whether I'm running in virtual or not...
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