I'm curious.  What is your old reliable? I agree with bloat.  Seems Linux just keeps on growing.  I had not pondered this much, except recently when I replace a Fedora Core 2 server with CentOS 6.  I ran the Fedora box for 5 years as a local LAMP dev box. I wonder if there is a "thin" Linux.  Of course right out of the box.  I have no time to optimize Linux or M$.  I have to upgrade occasionally since I am building apps that run on a relatively recent release. I sometime think of the good old days when Linux fit on a handful of 1.44MB micro floppies.  It now comes on a handful of CD's or a DVD. ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Tue, 3/6/12, joe@actionline.com wrote: From: joe@actionline.com Subject: Re: Seeking a concise Linux installation checklist To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 10:13 AM Eric Shubes wrote, in part: > ok to ... dual boot XP/Linux, running VBox on Linux > Then you introduced dual booting multiple linux distros along with XP. > Not a good idea in this day and age. > I think your objective should be to get to the point of having a single > linux boot, with VBox running whatever other OSs you want from there, > including XP. Forget about dual booting unless it's absolutely necessary > to get from here to there. [snipped] Thanks Eric. I certainly do always trust your counsel. Since I need to be unavailable much of the time until May, I'll have to come back to this later. But I just wanted to explain why I had proposed the multiple boot scenario. I really do detest xp and everything M$ and I rarely use it; however, since it is on the system and I have way more HD space than I need, I thought I might just leave it there and make the proposed triple boot to be able to access two different Linux installations for this reason: Every time I have ever "updated" a Linux distro, it has caused problems, and it seems to me that the newer Linux distros have become more bloatware and a whole lot less reliable than my "old reliable" system which I *never* update and which *never* fails to perform flawlessly (although it does have some obvious limitations). Therefore, I would like to install that "old reliable" system as one of two Linux options. In the second Linux installation, I hope to install VirtualBox with xp as a virtual option.  But it is because I am apprehensive because of my universal and uniform past experience with newer distros that I would like to keep that "fall-back" option of "old reliable."  Thus the triple-boot notion. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss