<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">--- On </font><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Fri, 5/8/11, ross smith <i><gaurdro@gmail.com></i></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"> wrote:</font><br><blockquote style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><br>From: ross smith <gaurdro@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] Official or Not?<br>To: dixiedancer@gmail.com, "Xubuntu Help and User Discussions" <xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com><br>Date: Friday, 5 August, 2011, 15:03<br><br><div class="plainMail">> I always stick with the LTS releases because I have only one computer and<br>> it's "mission-critical!" I wish I had the time and resources and a spare<br>>
computer to help test the new versions and contribute to the project in more<br>> substantial ways than just the fanboy stuff I write in my blog and on the<br>> forums.<br>><br><br>You can always set up a virtual machine via VirtualBox[1] or VMWare to<br>test new software. :) You get to play with new things (at a cost of<br>performance) without messing up your main computer. IIRC VirtualBox<br>is already in the ubuntu repos.<br><br></div></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>This has been an incredibly interesting and insightful discussion so far, thanks for that!</div></div></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><div>Does that mean I can run Windows using VirtualBox inside Xubuntu to use the two or three applications I rely on that don't work on Linux as opposed to the dual boot approach? </div></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; ">Would that be a better way of doing things?</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "></span></font></div></span></font><blockquote style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><div
class="plainMail">-Ross<br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/" target="_blank">http://www.virtualbox.org/</a><br><br>-- <br>xubuntu-users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" href="/mc/compose?to=xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a><br></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table>