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A very good guide and an excellent way to try out a Linux os. I would like to say that as the guide was written in 2001 promoting the use of a 32 Bit os was very sensible. However things have changed a lot since then and I would recommend anyone with a 64 Bit CPU to give a 64 Bit version of Linux a run.

Penguins forever.

Whoops, it should have been todays date These discussion threads are automatically created with a new article, but the article date needs updating (I'll do that now!).

The reason I suggested 32bit in this instance was that it is running under a virtual machine and I don't think it would be taken advantage of (like a normal full install). I might give it a go and find out though

Questions that occured to me during reading were:

1) How is the Linux OS accessed? Presumably the PC will boot into Windows and you select 'Virtual PC' from Programs.

2) How many Virtual hard Disks can you create?

3) Is the allocated memory permanently taken away from Windows or only used whilst (each) virtual disk is being used?

If these questions occured to me, I'm sure they will be thought of by other readers as well.

An informative, enjoyable article

Very good points Flops! I'll edit the article once I've tried the 64 bit OS and add them in I'll just add them here now though too:

1) Simply load Virtual PC 2007 from the start menu and double click on the Linux name (as in the first stage of Step 4)

2) You can make up to 3 virtual hard drives, but if you wanted more drives you can always partition them to as many drive letters as required. Alternatively, you can create as many Virtual Machines as you have room for (ideal for testing another OS).

3) It does appear to allocate the whole amount of memory, even if you are only using a small portion of it within the Virtual PC. 512MB should be fine for users with 2GB+ of Ram, but those with 1GB may struggle to run much else in the background.

Uramas should be able to help out here as he is a Virtual Linux guru .

I've been playing with VirtualBox, another Virtual PC emulator and I have to say it's better than MSVPC and VMWare's VPC:

http://www.virtualbox.org/

Not exactly relevant, but.....

When i built my new PC, i didn't want to pay Ł60-70 for another copy of Vista, as i tried phoning microsoft and explained i was upgrading but told no, politely.

I then downloaded Mandriva Free Spring, it works okay but cannot use my wireless card with it, got sent around so many different sites it was useless.

After 2 days of stress i was more than happy to give Mr Gates some more money.

Personally i think Linux is crap.

lol
that's funny I think it can be daunting at first but much more stable.

Is that "crap" a mnemonic for,

CREATIVE
REMARKABLE
AMAZING
PRACTICAL