Inspired by this thread I thought I'd give Vortexbox a spin as a guest OS under Ubuntu 10.04, using VmWare's free VMplayer.
This was way easier than trying out the distro on bare metal, which I have done once before. I was highly impressed by how complete and functional Vortexbox is these days. Yummy, in fact :-) Since my host is a laptop, I don't have a reason to want keep a Virtual Vortexbox running on such a machine, but I did use it to rip a new CD into my collection which it did efficiently and correctly. Overall, if I were to switch to Vortexbox in a dedicated machine as a storage appliance, I think I'd still install it on bare metal, but as a test environment VMware/Virtualbox has considerable merit. Furthermore, I have enjoyed getting reacquainted with Vortexbox, which I may not have bothered to do had it entailed dedicating a machine to it just for testing purposes. Best regards, Charles. -- dsdreamer ---------------------- "Dreamer, easy in the chair that really fits you..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dsdreamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81341 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
