On 06/08/09 00:51, Sean Miller wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Gordongbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting. I'm running RC at the moment and am NOT seeing it chock full
of those really annoying popups at all.
a. I ran it for several months under Virtualbox with 512mb allocated
and
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Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue
hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99
:-) Getting mine for £44
Still thinking of using it in a VM.
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On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 08:34 +0100, Gordon wrote:
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Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue
hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99
Surely that a description of Kubuntu?
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)alansli...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue
hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary
OS with virtually no applications doesn't float my boat.
If you pay £219.99
On 06/08/09 08:53, Sean Miller wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)alansli...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue
hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary
OS with virtually no applications
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 06/08/09 08:53, Sean Miller wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)alansli...@gmail.com
wrote:
Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue
hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary
Anyone done this?
If so, any thoughts or caveats or observations?
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I have been running the Windows 7 beta under parallels for the iMac and it
runs a treat. I have also tried it in virtualbox running in a virtual
instance of Ubuntu on the iMac and again it performs really well.
Both tests out performed a native install on a dell 620 laptop (ok I know my
iMac is
Anyone done this?
If so, any thoughts or caveats or observations?
Yes, a couple of times with various betas under VirtualBox...
It runs fine, and has nice wallpaper... :)
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Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:05:40 +0100
From: Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine?
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Gordon wrote:
Anyone done this?
If so, any thoughts or caveats or observations?
Yes, I managed to get it running on VirtualBox. Basically as long as
you can give it enough memory (I think it's a minimum of 512MB, but more
ideally about 1 to 2GB) then it should work okay. Of course it'll
Mike Paglia wrote:
I have been running the Windows 7 beta under parallels for the iMac
and it runs a treat. I have also tried it in virtualbox running in a
virtual instance of Ubuntu on the iMac and again it performs really well.
You can VirtualBox on Ubuntu which was running in a VM?
That's
I have done it as well, in VMware (I downloaded a premade VMware image
of Windows 7). It worked okay, but I will not be buying a copy or using
it regularly. It is not as good as Linux, and although an improvement on
Vista, it is still not good value for money. Although the free beta
which
On 05/08/09 12:05, Gordon wrote:
Anyone done this?
If so, any thoughts or caveats or observations?
Yep.
It ran fine in a VirtualBox VM on Ubuntu.
I hated it. Win7 was chock full of those really annoying popups and
wizards that try to tell you what you don't really want to do...
It didn't
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 19:13 +0100, Alan Lord (News)
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those really annoying popups and
wizards that try to tell you what you don't really want to do...
How I love those. Tell us more.
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On 05/08/09 12:05, Gordon wrote:
Anyone done this?
If so, any thoughts or caveats or observations?
Yep.
It ran fine in a VirtualBox VM on Ubuntu.
I hated it. Win7 was chock full of those really
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Gordongbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting. I'm running RC at the moment and am NOT seeing it chock full
of those really annoying popups at all.
a. I ran it for several months under Virtualbox with 512mb allocated
and it was fine
b. I don't remember any
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