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Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny



On 01/19/2011 09:11 PM, Steve Kleene wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:09:30 +0000 (UTC), I wrote:

I'm about to get a new desktop and want to run Lenny on it. ...Is there
anything in new hardware that I should particularly avoid because it might
not be suppprted by Lenny?

Thanks for all of the replies describing ways to check for compatibility.

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:55:22 +0000, Wolodja Wentland replied:

You might want to consider installing Squeeze given that it will be
released soonish (expected for 5./6. February [0]).

I'll explain why I want to stick with Lenny (2.6.26), at the risk of starting
another best-virtual-machine thread.  Unfortunately, I need Windows
sometimes.  I am very happy running XP on VMware Server 1.0.6 under Lenny.
VMware is a pain to install but nice thereafter.  I don't like the Server 2
interface and don't really have enough time to research or test the many
alternatives.  I do know that opinions on all of the options are really
mixed.  For me, though, the laziest path is to live in the past a little
longer.  (As a Win4Lin alumnus, I know this strategy can't last forever.)



I'm not trying to start a best-virtual-machine flame war here, but a tip might would be to try out VirtualBox. On Debian Squeeze the installation is only:

aptitude install linux-headers-2.6-$(uname -r | sed 's,.*-,,') virtualbox-ose

and you're done :)

http://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox

I used to run VMware, but VirtualBox works great for me.


/Daniel


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