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To: ShadowAce

Probably heresy to say this - but although I like LiveCD’s as rescue disks - the idea that you slap a LiveCD into a disk drive and then find out if you “like” a distro or no - to me doesn’t really make sense.

Whether I like a distro has to do with how it feels to live with the actual distro - set it up to do real work - a Live CD “test drive” will show you what the user experience “feels like” - but not sure I buy how useful that is in real life.

YMMV.


31 posted on 10/24/2011 10:02:57 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

What I do (or used to do) is install the distro as a virtual machine using Virtualbox. That’s closer to “real” than a live CD.


32 posted on 10/24/2011 10:08:17 AM PDT by shorty_harris
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