[development] Development platform?

[Jeff Greenberg]

I agree with John that it's nice to use vbox. Plus, I -must- use Vista 
occasionally because of Quickbooks (invoicing) being on it, Ubuntu not 
playing nice with my CD, skype and a few other things. At the office, I 
have the luxury of using separate boxes I suppose, but not always.

So thus far (thanks all for the replies), it seems that the likely order 
of  my practical options are: stop using firefox, reduce memory to vbox 
and return more to vista, add memory to the laptop (it will take 1Gb 
more), try a new VB with either a prepackaged Ubuntu or a completely 
different flavor of linux.

Jeff