[NBLUG/talk] Linux setup help

[Mike Rice]

Please keep it on the list! If I have a question later I can use the list as a resource for answery-goodness.
 
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 From: Dan HODUL <dhodul at hotmail.com>
To: "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions, etc." <talk at nblug.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Linux setup help
 


 
Yes, thanks, everyone.  I'm obviously out of my depth here, and after visiting my tech friend today, I think I'll now leave this Lenovo alone, at least until I can get a live distro disk, as my burned download asks what I want to open it with, and there are no good choices, unless you want to buy something from the "store".  After some optimization by my friend, this thing is usable for some things I need.
  Now, I need to figure out what is wrong with my backup computer....it's an ASUS ubuntu netbook that no longer connects to the 'net...it just keeps "pending". I bet you guys can advise me on that problem.   If that computer is finished, then I think I'd like to buy another laptop and reformat it for Linux, but I learned today that the new hard drives are OS specific, and if it has Windows 8 on it, I can't get it off to put only Linux on, so I guess I'd just save the HD for a backup and put, possibly, a new solid state HD. Good choice?

I'll stop using the whole NBLUG mailing list and will try to respond to individuals, as I see I'm less tech savvy than I thought!

Thanks again,
DAN


> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:51:08 -0700
> From: jerickson at logicalnetworking.net
> To: talk at nblug.org
> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Linux setup help
> 
> I don't really agree with that, but definitely agree that using an SSD
> for your OS partitions will increase the overall speed of your system
> (VM or not).
> 
> IMHO virtualization bottlenecks would most likely come from your CPU not
> having the VT instruction set available (or turned on in the BIOS)
> and/or lack of memory to run them...though if it's a Win8 laptop, I
> would *hope* they would have a whole lot of ram ;)
> 
> What you *should* do is have Linux as your host OS and virtualize
> Windows 8......dot dot dot
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Jordan
> 
> 
> On 06/19/2013 02:38 PM, Zack Gold wrote:
> > If Ubuntu runs slow on your new laptop, it'll probably be caused by a
> > bottleneck in hard drive resources. Another suggestion might be to buy
> > a solid-state drive, since a virtual machine is going to be
> > inconveniently slow if your laptop is running off a hard drive disk.
> >
> >
> *snip*
> 
> -- 
> Jordan Erickson (PGP: 0xDA470FF8)
> 
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