[OT] Ubuntu 12.10 guest in VirtualBox completely broken

[Ellery Newcomer]

On 11/10/2012 04:11 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-11-10 12:30, Alix Pexton wrote:
>
>> What a coincidence, I just installed VirtualBox and was looking for
>> advice on what distro of linux to install...
>>
>> All I want to be able to do with my VM is be able to build GDC for my
>> RasPi (via all the hoops that are necessary to get cross compilation
>> working), not bothered about any GUI stuff or bells/whistles,
>> suggestions for a good distro to go with are welcome!
>
> Ubuntu 12.04 was working perfectly fine for me. Another alternative
> could be Linux Mint. I haven't used it myself but I heard it's basically
> Ubuntu with less bells and whistles, i.e they're not using the Unity GUI.
>
> http://linuxmint.com/
>

Ubuntu 12.10/gnome classic works well enough; just turn off compiz. I 
tried mint and ran into trouble while compiling llvm. make gobbled 
memory for a while, and then the desktop restarted itself (I guess?). 
All my windows: gone.