I will agree with that as well. Unless you have a vid capture card or
some other special hardware VM's are a much better option for learning
Linux. And VMWare is supper easy
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Eric Shubert <
ejs@shubes.net> wrote:
> I concur.
> I also strongly recommend running additional hosts as virtual machines
> (either with VirtualBox or VMware Player/Workstation) instead of dual
> booting. VMs are much nicer to use.
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
>
> Bryan O'Neal wrote:
>>
>> I agree - The SuSE, RedHat (Fedora), and Debian (Ubuntu) branches are
>> quite different but all very good. See which one you like best.
>> Personally I loved SuSE at first but could not spend the time to learn
>> it as well as Fedora or Ubuntu. And, well, Ubuntu just amazes me at
>> how simple it can be for simple things, like printing, so it get heavy
>> props.
>> For servers I am almost pure RedHat (Cent OS to be specific) for
>> desktops I have one Ubuntu and one Fedora on my desk. I use them both
>> equally.
>>
>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Mark Phillips
>> <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am partial to Debian. I have it running on a a 64bit Dell laptop for
>>> about
>>> 6 months with no problems. I also run Windows 7 Pro as a virtual machine.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:58 PM, mike Enriquez <mylinux@cox.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am planning to build a dual boot workstation. It will a 64bit computer
>>>> with Windows 7 pro but I have yet to select a linux distro.
>>>> I am open to any suggestions. Which linux distro would you use. My only
>>>> requirement is that it further my linux education.
>>>> I am willing to try any Linux Distro in workstation or server version.
>>>>
>>>> Also what would you put into your 64 bit computer? I am planning to use
>>>> an
>>>> i7 extreme processor on an MSI X58 pro-E motherboard. Ram is going to be
>>>> DDR3 1600 MHz.
>>>>
>>>> I am open to any ideas. Please send me your ideas.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Mike Enriquez
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