A short aside

[chebe]

Half the screen on my laptop is broken, and at six years of age the insurance has expired. This means a momentous event is about to occur, the New Laptop. And I'm getting all excited. It's coming with Windows 7 (which I haven't tried yet), so I think I'm going to have to dual-boot it with linux. Probably Fedora, but I'll have to try a Live CD first to see if the USB problems I went through are hardware/driver specific. I have an existing Windows XP VM I'll probably set up under linux too. And I'm thinking of setting up a lamp stack on CentOS to play around with WordPress. Which means I might have use of the IE-testing VMs Microsoft made up. Also a full Eclipse set-up for Android development might be fun. Then there's also the software/IDEs for my music player and xBees that are Windows-only. Can I set-up my VMs in a third partition and have them happily accessed from either OS? That'd be neat. And a media partition too, which I could set up with rsync to external backup. Am I going to need software version control, if for nothing else then Arduino code? If so, which one? ... Maybe this is all just overkill. Then again, I am a computer geek ;) Oh the things I'm going to learn!

Comments

[vatine]

You probably want SOME sort of version control. What that is/would be... Try to stay away from CVS, it's old and has some interesting misfeatures.

Git MAY be the thing to choose. It's distributed, can do ad-hoc structures, pulling and pushing updates in all sorts of directions. It has network support and there's at leats a few "cloud-based" places to stash off-home copies of your source tree(s).

But, I'd advise doing at least a little bit of comparisons between Git, Subversion and Mercurial before you decide on which one you go with. And there's always the option of using more than one.

[altamira16]

Why would you do both dual boot and have virtual machines? It seemed like more people are leaving dual boot in favor of virtual machines. I have a Mac, and I use Parallels to run Windows in a virtual machine on it. Why would you want a third partition for your virtual machines?