Re: Tree using wxEuphoria
- Posted by gbonvehi 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.
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.
Yes, Windows's boot manager doesn't allow other systems while with GRUB or Lilo (the ones most Linux distro uses) you can choose any OS.
4GB is really fine, you could easily give 2GB to the VM. It won't, of course, be as fast as running it from a Virtual RAM CD as I think your processor does not have emulation extensions. The advantage of the VM is that you really have all inside an emulated machine, all the things you do are "contained" there, you can take a snapshot of the VM, make a mess, and rollback to it.
Here are some Kubuntu VM images you can directly download and start using them: http://virtualboxes.org/images/kubuntu/
Both alternatives should work fine for you.
