Personal computing discussed
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mattsteg wrote:king_kilr wrote:VMware server isn't expensive. It's free.VMware looks rather expensive, I was hoping there would be a free option.
king_kilr wrote:Unfortunately I don't have the junk closet to set up another rig, and the only linux running system in the house is running MythTV and its a communal system so if I do something bad/need to take it down to play with it/bork mythweb I'm going to piss people off.
just brew it! wrote:I'd think the main concern might be screwing up mythweb by breaking apache.king_kilr wrote:Unfortunately I don't have the junk closet to set up another rig, and the only linux running system in the house is running MythTV and its a communal system so if I do something bad/need to take it down to play with it/bork mythweb I'm going to piss people off.
Yeah, nothing like borking your family's IT infrastructure to get on everyone's sh*t list!
I wouldn't think you'd need to be rebooting the box much (or even restarting the Apache service), once you've gotten the basic configuration set up the way you want. Unlike Windows, Linux generally doesn't require reboots when stuff changes. The main concern would be system load... if there isn't a lot of performance headroom, I suppose MythTV might drop frames here and there if other stuff puts a heavy load on the system.
mattsteg wrote:I'd think the main concern might be screwing up mythweb by breaking apache.
Usacomp2k3 wrote:I prefer VirtualPC to VMware personally. It might not be as powerful, but it's very straightforward and easier for me to work with.
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Hance wrote:It isnt exactly what you are looking for but Wubi will let you install Ubuntu as a program under windows. You would have to reboot to run linux but you would end up with basically a full linux install. http://wubi-installer.org/