From: "Robert Comer" 

> Generic DYI box, ASUS mb, Athlon X2 , 2 gig mem, 4 SATA drives.

I'm jealous!  That config should be very nice for running your
VMWare/Ubuntu combo, but I might suggest installing VMWare and the Ubuntu
virtual hard drive on something other than your system disk, and I'd only
allocate 512M of RAM to it. (if you have the choice)

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Bob Comer


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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>>> Anyone download and play with the free VMware Player for Windows?
>>
>> Not me, when you have the paid for version you wouldn't need this. (and I
>> use Virtual PC way more often anyway)
>>
>>> It looks like Ubuntu Linux is provided as a free Virtual Application.
>>> Rather than booting Knopix is this a reasonable way to play with Linux?
>>
>> It depends on how they set it up, but it sounds like it would be a great
>> way to do it.  What kind of hardware do you have?
>>
>> --
>
> Generic DYI box, ASUS mb, Athlon X2 , 2 gig mem, 4 SATA drives.
>
> I dl-ed the VM Player and a few Linux applications last night. I figure
> I'll give it a try in the next few days
>
>
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