[X4U] Linux on Virtual PC

[Zane H. Healy]

> Why are you installing Linux on Virtual PC? I think that would be incredibly
> slow. You can get versions of Linux that are made specifically to run on a

For certain things VPC is a good solution.  If you have one or two apps hat
you need to run now and then it can be a lot easier to run them under VPC. 
To my extreme irritation I'm finding it totally unsuited for what I bought
it for.

> Mac. Yellow Dog comes to mind I'm pretty sure you can set that up as a Dual
> Boot also. If you want Linux (I have FC3 on a PC and use it as a server for
> my Mac) buy a used PC somewhere they are so cheap probably as a cheap or
> cheaper than a legitimate copy of VPC. You'll have a WAY better user
> experience that way and you get try fun things like networking it.

Even a dirt cheap Pentium, or Pentium II laptop might be a better choice, if
you can find one that has good Linux support.  Actually the same holds true
for most Windows apps as well probably :^(  VPC2 & 3 seemed to be much
better on my G4/450 than than VPC7 on my dual 2Ghz G5 :^(

> Linux will run on anything from a PI up you can't go wrong.

Actually Linux should run on anything from a 386sx on up, but that doesn't
mean it will be fun :^)  Depending on what distro, and how you install it,
there are some pretty heafty system requirements these days.  My first Linux
box in '92 was 486/33 w/8MB RAM (later 20MB), then in '94 I had to downgrade
to a 386sx/16 w/4MB RAM, talk about painful, but I even managed to run
X-Windows!

		Zane