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Preferred O/S (Free?)

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Sunin

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I recently downloaded CentOS and was going to install that until my HD gave up the ghost...

So my question is what is the preferred O/S to run 2 VM's on and to maximize PPD?

Also how hard is it to install CentOS? Is there a guide somewhere?

I saw Tiger's guide for VM's and will be using that to establish the VM's upon installation of the O/S hopefully today or tomorrow when my new HD arrives.
 
I don't think you're going to find any of the Linux OSes fold any faster or slower than another one. The only difference you would probably find is in how much space they take to install (openSUSE is rather bloated but includes everything) and how much RAM they might need to fold properly. I have openSUSE running in VMs on two quads. On one I only have 2 gig of RAM and gave each VM 512 meg to play with and I have no trouble with that even using the GUI. On my other one I have 4 gig and gave each VM 768 meg to play with. It doesn't fold any faster or slower than the ones using 512 meg. One of these days I'm going to get around to dropping it down to 512 on those two VMs just because they don't need the RAM.

Tiger has messed with CentOS and likes to use that for his VMs. I prefer openSUSE for my Linux needs. Other people like Ubuntu or one of it's variants. It's mostly just personal preference as they all run at pretty much the same speed. The only other thing you might want to look at is your hardware and make sure the Linux distro you're looking at supports all of it. So far I haven't had a problem with openSUSE as it's had support for all my hardware ranging from an old P3 800 system up to a P35 chipset based Q6600. Tiger has not had a problem with his hardware and CentOS. I've also used Ubuntu and Kubuntu and have had no trouble with hardware with either of them. Fedora Core 6 worked fine on my Gigabyte P965 board as a regular install and Fedora 8 seems to work fine in a VM as well.

King has tried one of the BSD flavors which run lean and mean but the SMP client doesn't seem to work on it right now. Plus, it takes a bit more knowledge and time to get a working BSD system and the hardware support isn't as good from what I remember. I personally have not tried running any of the BSD variants at this time.

 
Almost totally off topic, but is it just me, or is just about any random string of letters the name of a Linux distro?
 
us programmers like weird names :D

anyhoo, my xubuntu + smp have 512 ram per and use ~350 within a 4 gig virtual disk
 
Think of the odd names as a way to distinguish the open-source software from the boringly-named commercial software. I like the unique names--they don't sound so boringly corporate (Internet Explorer, MS Word, Windows Server 2003, TurboTax, Symantec Internet Security, ad nauseum).

Back on topic, I have Ubuntu on most of my linux-running boxen, although I do have one with Fluxbuntu. I figure that switching from Windows to any flavor of Linux is a big enough step for now, and I might as well get used to a single distribution. Once I get more experienced with it, I'll branch out and look at other distros.
 
So, what distro requires the absolute smallest amount of RAM for a VM?

 
APOLLO said:
So, what distro requires the absolute smallest amount of RAM for a VM?
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Notfreds .......... :p
The diskless folding CD only needs 350-400 Meg to run in a VM.

My VM's use around 600 Meg but thats keeping everything in the memory.
Also that is running INIT-3 so no fancy graphics.
It all a question of how much you dont need/want to install if your going for a minimum size.
My version in a VM only needs a 4 Gig drive, 3 gig if you dont want to update it.
The disk image is 1.6 Gigs in size.

PS. The client alone needs around 350 Meg of ram just to run at full speed.

Luck .............. :D
 
Tigerbiten said:
Notfreds .......... :p
The diskless folding CD only needs 350-400 Meg to run in a VM.

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PS. The client alone needs around 350 Meg of ram just to run at full speed.
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400MB should cut it then?
 
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