Cadman wrote:
I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs.
You are asking on a Debian user list. Any answer other than yes here
would lead me to seriously question the responses. Meanwhile I would
expect that a Fedora list would respond for Fedora for example and the
same for every other distribution's user lists. We are all here
because this is where we want to be.
I am a Draftsman working from home due to physical handicaps. I use graphic
and RAM memory intensive 3D CAD software in Windows 7. My W7 OS is
operating poorly and is expensive to replace.
If Linux is right for me; I need to replace it with a 1. Very stable, 2.
With least amount of configuring and 3. User Friendly Linux OS.
Stable? Yes. Least amount of configuration? I don't know. With
power comes flexibility. That requires decision making. I would
definitely trade some need to configure for that power and
flexibility. Friendly? As the old saying goes Unix is friendly but
it is choosy who its friends are. :-)
A friend suggested that I replace Windows 7 with Ubuntu Trusty 14.04, which
I did. It worked fine until I installed my 3D CAD software within Virtual
Box. Since then Ubuntu and the software crashes often. It even reboots
instead of turning the screen black when the 10 minute screen saver feature
operates.
Even though this is a Debian list and not an Ubuntu one I wouldn't run
from Ubuntu to Debian because of this. I would expect their behavior
to be identical. I expect the problem to be VirtualBox and VirtualBox
would cause Debian's kernel to behave the same way.
This is a few years old now but I will ask the list if anything has
changed since then?
The VirtualBox Kernel Driver Is Tainted Crap
Published on 11 October 2011 10:50 AM EDT
http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk5Mw
It has been a few years but if the problem reported above remains and
I haven't read otherwise since then (please correct me with current
references) then the problem on the Linux kernel is probably
VirtualBox and not the kernel.
I think VirtualBox is very popular because on Microsoft Windows it
appears to be a very popular and stable system there. But that
stability there did not translate across platforms. On MS it is
probably a good choice. On a Linux kernel? Maybe not.
Other people have suggested VMware. Is the license for that a
free(dom) license? There are other virtualization options. Xen is
still very popular. I am using KVM.
Bob