[nlug] Re: FW: Re: Which Debian Distro?

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From: Howard Coles jr (Yeah, right)
Date: 03/02/07

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    On Friday 02 March 2007 11:40:18 am Wayne Fay wrote:
    > Your best bet (assuming you have $150 available) is to just buy a
    > license for VMWare Workstation. It has wizards that can step you
    > through the creation of your Linux VM etc so its dead-simple to use.
    >
    > If you don't have the funds available, then you can look into
    > downloading a pre-built VMWare image and then use the free VMWare
    > Player to "play" the image. With this option, you don't actually need
    > to worry about "installing" Linux at all -- it will be ready to go
    > as-is once downloaded.
    >
    > Wayne
    >
    > On 3/2/07, Larry Thomas <Yeah, right> wrote:
    > > Thanks for the suggestions; I'll look into VMWare. I think that one of
    > > the things that got lost along the way was that I don't intend to RUN the
    > > kernels I want to COMPILE. I'll be able to get what I need (for my
    > > research) from the 'make' process itself (I'll be examining pre-processed
    > > code), so I'm not looking for a version of Linux to RUN on a 486 or a
    > > Pentium; I just need a (modern) environment