Re: Which Distribution for VMWare


"Aragorn" <stryder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sunday 29 October 2006 21:00, asdf stood up and addressed the masses
in /comp.os.linux.misc/ as follows...:

want something that is easy to install and manage
but something that is easy on system resources.
I'm planning to run it with only 256 Mb of RAM.

You are being too vague... Do you need a distro which you will be running
*inside* VMWare - you are posting from within Windows, so this is quite
possible - or do you want a distribution to run *underneath* of a VMWare
virtual machine with some other OS running in it?

VMWare is installed on WinXP. I plan to run linux OS on top of windows


In addition, will the 256 MB of memory be the memory for the virtual
machine, or will it be the total memory capacity of the host machine? In
case of the latter, you may want to reconsider your plans.

Total capacity is 1Gb. I can't spare more than 256 for the linux install.
Would be great if it could be less.


A modern operating system needs at least 128 to 256 MB of RAM for itself -
Windows needs far more, especially Vista, but then again, that's not an
operating system; that's a toy <grin> - and so if you plan on running a
VMWare session on top of any OS in such a meager environment, you'd be
running a lot out of swap, which will seriously affect your computing
experiences in a negative way on that particular machine.

If you are inquiring about a GNU/Linux distro to run *inside* a virtual
machine which has 256 MB of RAM, then given that it should be an
easy-to-install distribution, I would recommend Mandriva or perhaps any of
the Kubuntu/Ubuntu/Xubuntu flavors. (Open)SuSE is also a very
userfriendly
distribution.


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