Anybody ever run a Linux distro under this beastie?
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~Mike

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Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anybody ever run a Linux distro under this beastie?

  Probably.

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                                                          - Warp

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Anybody ever run a Linux distro under this beastie?

I have

It's been a while, but if I remember right, the biggest problem is color 
depth.  If you can get past that, you should be in good shape.

You may run into some driver problems as well.  IIRC the kernel 'generic 
ide' driver was not playing nice - lots of timeouts - disabled it and 
things went smoother.


There is a pretty large speed hit, but I didn't have cpu virtulization 
extensions available.

All in all it worked pretty good


Hope this helps some.

LAter...  Tom

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Tom Austin wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>> Anybody ever run a Linux distro under this beastie?
> 
> I have
> 
> It's been a while, but if I remember right, the biggest problem is color 
> depth.  If you can get past that, you should be in good shape.
> 
> You may run into some driver problems as well.  IIRC the kernel 'generic 
> ide' driver was not playing nice - lots of timeouts - disabled it and 
> things went smoother.
> 
> 
> There is a pretty large speed hit, but I didn't have cpu virtulization 
> extensions available.
> 
> All in all it worked pretty good
> 
> 
> Hope this helps some.
> 
> LAter...  Tom

Hmm, May give me a way of playing with Linux in a virtual box, though.

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"Mike Raiford" <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Hmm, May give me a way of playing with Linux in a virtual box, though.


If that's all you're after, you can read try the VMWare player (free) along 
with a Linux distro.  In povray.tools.general, I posted an explanation of 
how to run ArahWeave under Linux under Windows about 2 years ago.

VMWare player: http://www.vmware.com/download/player/
Virtual Linux Machines: http://developer.kde.org/~binner/vmware

You can find more virtual machines in other places, but that one worked 
great for what I wanted to do with ArahWeave.

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> 
> Hmm, May give me a way of playing with Linux in a virtual box, though.
> 

yes, it could do that.

I've set up several installs of linux in a Virtual PC environment - most 
of them fresh Linux From Scratch builds tho.



Tom

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Jeremy M. Praay wrote:
> "Mike Raiford" <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:4900a58a$1@news.povray.org...
> 
>> Hmm, May give me a way of playing with Linux in a virtual box, though.
> 
> 
> If that's all you're after, you can read try the VMWare player (free) along 
> with a Linux distro.  In povray.tools.general, I posted an explanation of 
> how to run ArahWeave under Linux under Windows about 2 years ago.
> 
> VMWare player: http://www.vmware.com/download/player/
> Virtual Linux Machines: http://developer.kde.org/~binner/vmware
> 

This sounds perfect for what I want. I hadn't thought of ArahWeave until 
you mentioned it. Something to definitely mess with for sure! I've been 
wanting to mess with it since (I think it was) Gilles posted pictures 
made by using textures created in this program.

Splendid!

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~Mike

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Tom Austin wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, May give me a way of playing with Linux in a virtual box, though.
>>
> 
> yes, it could do that.
> 
> I've set up several installs of linux in a Virtual PC environment - most 
> of them fresh Linux From Scratch builds tho.
> 
> 
> 
> Tom

Now I'm playing with VirtualBox ... Very nice package. Seems relatively 
stable, and appears to natively support every Linux distro under the 
sun. Including the VM extensions to go with it.

So, now ... I'm downloading Ubuntu, and I'll be creating a VM for it.

:D

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Michael Raiford wrote:

> 
> So, now ... I'm downloading Ubuntu, and I'll be creating a VM for it.
> 

Yay!

I attached a screenshot of VirtualBox's seamless mode. So I have a Vista 
desktop with Ubuntu windows running on it. Very neat. Yes, thats ArahWeave.

Things I've noticed about the latest versions of Linux, They seem to 
have a very familiar feel to them (e.g. it feels a whole lot like Vista, 
right down to the security prompts. The only difference there is it asks 
you for your password. Nice touch)

I've noticed with VirtualBox that maximized windows on the guest system 
tend to interfere with the host a bit.

Another nice Windowsy touch: 160 updates as soon as it was installed. :p

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> This sounds perfect for what I want. I hadn't thought of ArahWeave until
> you mentioned it. Something to definitely mess with for sure! I've been
> wanting to mess with it since (I think it was) Gilles posted pictures
> made by using textures created in this program.

No, that was Jaime:

http://www.ignorancia.org/en/index.php?page=Synthetic_fabrics

A very cool technique (but hey, it's JVP, what else can you expect? ;)

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