[Tfug] Ideas for the ultimate "Grandma Millie" distro...

[Jim March]

On 1/29/07, Joe Blais <joe.blais at pti-instruments.com> wrote:
>
> Don't shoot me --
> If they are running XPPro- just download VirtualPC, free from Microsoft.
> Set it up and install XP, again, into a virtual PC.  Make a backup copy of
> that virtual disk.  Then make sure they run entirely out of that virtual
> PC.
> If they get a bug, just restore the last backup --
>
> Almost no learning curve.  If they have a winders Pro version (I don't
> think
> xp home will run the virtual stuff, the new one anyway) they don't need
> anything new except the download.
>
> They can even learn Linux by running it in a virtual PC -- I do that here
> all the time.... then if they want to ...
>
> You could even set up the virtual PC once, and just move that image around
> without having to re-install for everyone. (license -- who needs a
> license?)
>
> ?
> Joe



OK, but...

A lot of these folks are running older hardware.  Some as bad as P3-800 with
512megs at best, some worse than that.

Am I right in assuming virtualization is "virtually" impossible in such
cases?

(About the best boxes I see involve P4/2gHz/1gig RAM...)

Jim