Hi, I recently purchased a Compaq Presario V3700 (Core 2 Duo T8100, 4GB, 160GB, 14.3 inch, Camera, DVD RW). It came with 32-bit Vista Home Premium SP1 preloaded. I have installed OpenSuSE 11.1 on it, which of-course is 32-bit (that's the only DVD I had on my hands). I have following queries and it will be helpful if you all can share your experiences and views on these:
(1.) What is the disadvantage if I run a 64-bit distro on this system. I want to be able to run firefox, flash, youtube all kinds of multimedia and other apps. (2.) Since this CPU is VT enabled, I want to be able to run some VMs for testing, perhaps using KVM or Xen. Can I create a 64-bit VM on 32-bit OS. (3.) What is the comparison of virtualisation tools in OpenSuSe, Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu (4.) SuSE has loaded Grub on /dev/sda3 (which is extended partition) and make it active. So now if I want to get rid of Linux completely I can just use fdisk and switch the active partition to /dev/sda1 and Vista will start booting. Any idea if Fedora 10, Ubuntu or Debian can be made to do the similar thing. I think they all change the MBR so its not easy to remove grub just in case I want to remove that. Regards. -- Ajitabh Pandey http://www.ajitabhpandey.info/ | http://www.unixclinic.net/ ICQ - 150615062 Registered Linux User - 240748 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
