Re: [Nolug] XP over 7 on VirtualBox

On 10/21/2011 06:11 PM, Clint Billedeaux wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net
> <mailto: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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> Joey Kelly
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Use something that will install with a minimal desktop like LXDE or
Flubox only. No KDE or Gnome. Me thinks you can do this with Fedora or
Debian. Arch or Slackware might bear looking into also.

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Thanks,
Ben Bullard
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