Thanks everyone!! VirtualBox is very interesting!
Ubuntu didn't seem to work very well - not sure if that's the virtual box though? Mint was practically perfect. Apart from some slowness due to using a VM? I'll play around with various things I think - hopefully I can get different VMs talking to each other as if they were physically existing!! It's a bit of a minefield tbh - too many cooks......... Thanks, Col On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Graham Ashton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 26 May, Andrew Premdas wrote: > > > Crunchbang #!: fast/minimal, but a bit of a pain on very modern hardware, > > mostly because of its debian roots. Slightly higher maintenance load, > very > > programmer/cli focused with good minimalism > > I agree - #! is excellent. Well it was; the guy behind it shut it down > earlier this year. In his message announcing #!'s demise, he said that > people could now get what #! offered using stock Debian. > > To the original question; I'd highly recommend installing a few distros in > virtual machines too, and seeing which one you like the most. You'll learn > something useful that way (whichever distro you stick with). > > My personal favourite is Debian, and some of the smaller distros that are > based upon it (such as #!). When Ubuntu first came out it was a very > welcome way to get up to date desktop software running on a Debian base, > but the gap has closed as the Linux desktop has matured. > > Hardware support in Ubuntu is excellent though, especially if you've got > very recent hardware. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/nwrug-members/_muHQp7eZc4/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
