Which Linux distro?

[Thomas Kuehne]

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Jari-Matti Mäkelä schrieb am 2007-04-26:
> Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:42:42 -0500, Dave wrote:
>> 
>>> I've been using RH or Fedora for years, but I'd like to hear what others have to say about some of 
>>> the other distros. Have been hearing a lot about Ubuntu lately. Any trustworthy rating sites or 
>>> articles out there?
>>>
>>> And time for a new machine w/ Vista (because I need to keep current in that world). I'm sick of 
>>> dual-booting, so am also wondering which VM / linux distro. will work well w/ Vista. Free (as in 
>>> beer) would be nice, but, being a programmer, I'd rather spend my time on that rather than on 
>>> setting up VM's and linux <g>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> - Dave
>> 
>> I haven't tried to vm vista, but the vmware server works fine for xp. I
>> personally use Debian testing, the only thing I have seen Ubuntu offer is a
>> bunch of pre-installed graphical front end programs. Suse was the only one
>> I could get Compiz working with my ati card. Other than that it really is
>> up to you.
>
> IIRC, the licenses of the cheaper versions of Vista do not allow running
> it in a VM. This is probably done to improve the rich user experience :P

Yeah, I've looked around a bit for a single seat Vista license with VM rights
(for porting) but those are prohibitive expensive. Guess I'll have to
stick to Wine and a VMed Windows95.

Thomas


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