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
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