[Tfug] Ideas for the ultimate "Grandma Millie" distro...

[Paul Lemmons]

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Subject: Re:[Tfug] Ideas for the ultimate "Grandma Millie" distro...
From: "Joe Blais" <joe.blais at pti-instruments.com>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: 01/29/2007 04:36 PM
> I run it on an older (4-5 yr old toshiba) laptop 500mHz, with only 512mb of
> ram, with XPpro.  Linux fedora 5 in virtualpc is dog slow on it, but XP
> runs OK, don't hardly notice the difference.  
Virtual PC is intentionally sub-optimized for Linux. It has nothing to 
do with memory. If you are going to virtualize use VMWare Server. It has 
drivers that will boost the performance of whatever is being 
virtualized; be that Windows OR Linux.