Re: [Nolug] XP over 7 on VirtualBox

From: Clint Billedeaux <clint_at_fastbadge.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:11:06 -0500
Message-ID: <CAKhJyBKYKJZwDGS+ZBLfoPcV7JVQX9sVAw1EaaHP1HgFm+8eVw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net> wrote:

> On Friday 21 October 2011 13:58, Clint Billedeaux wrote:
> > So we're using VirtualBox to run our XP machines on some new hardware.
> The
> > new hardware of course is running Windows 7.
> >
> > My question is what version of Linux would you recommend...if we were to
> > strip Windows 7 off these machines of course. It has to be stable
> (linux,
> > I know, but there are some crappy distros out there that I'd like to
> avoid
> > if possible) and it must NOT get in the way of some specialty printers we
> > use. The printers and our old software is the #1 reason we're keeping XP.
> >
>
> What distro do you like? Use that.
>
> Thanks Joey, all this effort to host a linux user group, and you fall back
on..."what do you like?"

See, I figure the Linux community probably has some interesting flavors out
there that I could use as just the tiniest little boot OS so that I can
assign more RAM to the virtual machine.

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