Perhaps create a new partiton even. You would be leaving the Windows installation alone and get the full speed of a Linux desktop
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Gareth McCumskey <[email protected]>wrote: > I have actually run Linux under Windows and even Windows under Linux. The > virtualisation technologies are quite advanced and I noticed minimal slow > down. It really depends on how much RAM you allow your virtual machine to > use. To reduce the impact of a Linux distro try using, for example, Xubuntu > which uses the lighter XFCE winow manager and not the slightly more bloated > Gnome or KDE > > > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Jake Barnes <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> >> On May 6, 9:23 pm, Pablo Godel <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Have you considered running linux on vmware or virtual box? >> >> Yes, but I've read that is very slow? >> >> My preference would be to blank the harddrive and install Ubuntu on >> the laptop, but the laptop isn't mine, it is a company loan. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Jake Barnes <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > > I just searched the archives and was surprised not to see this issue >> > > come up more often. >> > >> > > I have, till now, done all my development work on Linux. I typically >> > > install symfony using pear. I'm used to the core files being stored >> > > here: >> > >> > > /usr/share/php/symfony >> > >> > > Now, for a month, I'm switching to a laptop running Windows XP. I've >> > > got the WampServer installed and PHP running. >> > >> > > I'm curious, though, where do people put the core Symfony files on a >> > > Windows machine? >> >> >> > > > -- > Gareth McCumskey > http://garethmccumskey.blogspot.com > twitter: @garethmcc > -- Gareth McCumskey http://garethmccumskey.blogspot.com twitter: @garethmcc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
