new box

[Verde Denim]

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>wrote:

> [snip - moved to bottom...]
>
> 2009/5/31 Verde Denim <tdldev at gmail.com>:
> > All
> > Just built a new machine...
> > AMD quad-core X64 Phenom 2 on a GIGABYTE mobo with an NVIDIA XFX GTS 1GB
> > DDR3 graphics card
> > flying 16GB of Corsair 1600 DDR RAM.
> > (originally a game box for my son but he bought an alien so it's mine)
> >
> > It seems most of the components will run with Ubuntu, but the dilemma is
> > this -
> > I want to run Ubuntu as a primary with Win as a virtualbox within it.
> I've
> > had some scary slow performance problems in the past
> > running mickysoft in virtual under Ubuntu.
> >
> > Have others here on the list got an opinion strongly in 1 direction or
> the
> > other (win w/ubuntu as virtual vs ubuntu w/win as virtual?)
> > my school uses win, as well as a few things at work, but I try and do
> > everything I can under linux as of a few years ago, and, aside
> > from the occasional gameplay, I don't miss the dumbed down OS environment
> at
> > all.
> >
> > Any input is welcome. I'm trying to decide how to kick this monster off
> > prior to adding the 3Tb of disk storage in...
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jack
> >
>

I have not tried virtualisation at all, but spontaneously I would say
that I would run Windows under Ubuntu. The reason is that I would use
Ubuntu for most of the time, and it should be faster to run Ubuntu
directly than under Windows. So the OS you use most often should be
running and the other one could run virtually.

Well, that's my opinion anyway.

Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg

All
 Thanks for the input. I'm currently installing Ubuntu 64-bit Server.  I
caught NoOps comment about the repo, which I'll add as well.
Looks like it should be a good box - I've been living with 2 old 256Mb boxes
for about 12 years running Ubuntu since V4, and Gentoo V1.
I finally get my own screamer...

Jack

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