Hi, I'm thinking about creating a virtual machine image for VirtualBox to promote the use of Debian among neuroimaging scientists. The target audience are Windows-users currently using cygwin-based ports of available Linux/Unix tools, or even worse win32-only stuff just because they have/want to stick to Windows as their OS.
I think VMs are superior to Live-CDs for this task as the VMs can be used as a living Debian system that can be further customized. In contrast Live-CDs always feel like a snapshot of a certain system that one has to live with. I want to use VirtualBox, because it is freely available and only requires little configuration. Besides the usual features of its competitors it offers two interesting additions. 1. It can run 'headless' and provides the video output via an integrated RDP server that can be accessed over the network. 2. It can mount folders/drives on the host system even without a network setup. I want to use Debian etch as operating system and use as much available packages as possible. The desktop choice would probably be XFCE, because it require little memory which could be important if the VM host doesn't have much RAM installed. I plan to setup a single user (root only via sudo) for that all relevant apps are fully configured to give a nice works-out-of-the-box feeling. I'd like to keep it as close as possible to a standard Debian system. I do not intent to create yet-another-distribution, but a usable example installation of Debian etch. I'd be glad to hear your comments. I'd be especially interested in information if a similar project already exists and what I can do to get the highest benefit for the Debian project. Thanks in advance, Michael -- GPG key: 1024D/3144BE0F Michael Hanke http://apsy.gse.uni-magdeburg.de/hanke ICQ: 48230050 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
