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> 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.
>

Except that's manifestly *NOT* what you asked in your 13:58 email.

Thus, "we" don't appreciated surprise and anger when "we" answer the
question you actually asked instead of the question that you needed.

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