Re: Tree using wxEuphoria
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Mar 27, 2012
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I have AMD Anthalon 64bit CPU with 4GB memory with a XP Pro 32bit on a part of HD and XP Pro 64bit on another partition. I am told that if I install Linux in yet another partition, Linux partition manager will take over, and I would hate to give control of my partitions to a foreigner.
I'm not sure what that person meant, unless he thought that you were a foreigner, at which point, they already are!
Possibly, he meant that when you boot up, you'd probably see GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader) which would offer you the choice of which partition / OS to boot. Basically, whatever Windows does to handle this situation, it will not work with Linux (or anything else). GRUB allows you to boot into any. My current machine has Win7 64-bit on one partition and Kubuntu 11.10 64-bit on another.
4GB memory should be plenty for running VirtualBox. However, I am not so sure about complexity and speed under VirtualBox as opposed to running a Ubuntu version directly in a virtual RAM CD, at least initially. My intention is to develop under wxEuphoria and Windows which I am comfortable with, but off and on test under Linux to maintain compatibility all along. My escapade into Linux is strictly for one purpose only.
For most things, it would likely be faster than running a live CD, since loading stuff from the CD will be a lot slower than from hard disk, even using whatever sort of virtual filesystem VirtualBox uses.
I use VMWare for virtualization, which is also free, and works very well. In fact, you can download VMWare appliances that are all set up for you to use under VMWare (the free Player is what I generally use).
I suspect that virtualization is probably the way to go for you here, whichever virtualization app you pick.
Matt
