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Fun with Fedora

I've been working at a company for a little over 2 years now that is a microsoft sycophant company.  When it doesn't use microsoft, it uses the biggest, least agile vendor it can find. I didn't realize how much working with microsoft killed my computer interest.  In the past few weeks I've been working on upgrading and redesigning my home systems.  I had a fairly archaic Fedora Core 9 home server which I rarely used except to run Alpine on (to report my spam easily.)  I've decided it is time to go massively virtual. I built a new VirtualBox virtual machine on my laptop.  I migrated the FC9 box from a standalone server to the VM (not that hard really, just some dump/restore actions and voila.) The new task is to create a new FC13 box as the host OS.  Build a couple of VMs under it with different functions.  I should be able to upgrade the host OS and guest OSs on a different schedule and that should make keeping up with updates and new releases earlier, since I