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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:
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> 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:
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>> Hmm, May give me a way of playing with Linux in a virtual box, though.
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> 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.
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>
> 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:
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> So, now ... I'm downloading Ubuntu, and I'll be creating a VM for it.
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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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