Windows 7

Anhar_Miah

Anhar_Miah

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This week I had the opportunity to try a plethora of Linux Distributions, all of which was installed inside of virtual Machine (VirtualBox).

The first one I tried was Damn Small Linux (DSL), this was really amazing considering it was only 50mb! of course even smaller Distro's do exist that are small enough to fit on a single floppy disk, I didn't try those one though.

Although it was fully functioning it seemed felt somewhat 'clunky'.

I then decided to try Ubuntu, this was the slickest of them all and it ran totally flawless, everything well just worked :)

I then moved onto Fedora 11 , this was a disappointment since it refused it install because I *may* have had the wrong version (64bit I think) even though I have a 64 bit native machine and when installing the other OS's it always reported as 64bit, so perhaps I did something wrong in the configuration. I didn't want to re-download another time so I decided to move on.

I then looked around and found Slax, this was only around 128mb but was very smooth.

I then tried OpenSUSE (KDE) having high hopes, this installed ok, but then kept having issues login in, it would log in ok then show the desktop but it would then flicker and go right back to the login screen.

Visual wise this resembled Mac/Windows vista like UI which I liked a-lot. It seemed to have almost everything pre-loaded which was good also.

I also had am image of Windows 7 beta lent to me by a friend, and thought I give that a try also.

This was my natural territory, I felt at home but more importantly I got everything to work right with almost zero effort, the virtual shared fodlers actually worked also.

I'm sure its possible, but I'm still unable to get the share folders to work between Linux Guest OS and my Host machine (I've followed all the examples with no success)

RDP is something I desperately want to try in Linux, I was unable to connect to my Virtual Machine all though I could See its IP address, and ping'ed ok..


Anyhow, I enjoyed Windows 7 out of them all, and ironically Firefox runs faster in my virtual machine than on my native machine :P

I'm still on the prowl to find a Linux Distro that I'd like to install on my real machine as a trinity boot (Windows 7, XP, and Linux)

what's the experiece of others?

Anhar
 
I have a couple of friends over at Microsoft that are in some way affiliated with the Windows 7 program (I forget how), but they're pretty excited about it. I'm hearing it's supposed to be to Vista what XP was to ME.

For the record I actually like Vista x64. But I'm odd like that.
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Give our distro, Nexradix a try (www.nexradix.com). Like the other distros you mentioned, it is free as in price, as well as in freedom.

As for RDP, Nexradix doesn't have an RDP server installed by default, but it does have a VNC server built-in. An SSH server is also running by default should you perfer remote command line access.

For a Linux RDP server, try XRDP -- you'll have to build it from source, and it is designed for KDE (rather than GNOME, which Nexradix comes with by default), but it works pretty well. I've used it to push desktops to Windows CE based thin clients.

You CAN, however connect to a Windows RDP server from within Nexradix. Use the "Terminal Server Client" program in the Applications -> Internet menu.

As for folder sharing between Linux and Windows, that's been a bit of a pain for me as well with Virtualbox. I just use a central Linux server on my network and store everything there, regardless of if I'm in the virtual machine or not. It's just easier.

If you have any questions or need some input regarding any Linux distro, or have any feedback (good or bad) about Nexradix, feel free to PM me.
 
Cool! TwistedLincoln! I'm most diffinately going to take that Distro for a spin.

One of the main reason for wanting to try out Linux distro's is because I'm trying to write applications for Linux platforms and not just windows. Having a good distro would go a long way in terms of application developement.

Anhar
 
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