[colug-432] Introduction and distro preference question

[Brian Miller]

On 02/01/2014 08:47 AM, Dan Kaiser wrote:
> Thanks for all of the feedback, gentlemen. I do appreciate it.
>
> Sounds like a good idea to pick a Debian based distro at first (because
> I'm familiar) and then try many others virtually and branch out as time
> goes on.
>
> I have only used VirtualBox (VB) under OS X, but will have to do some
> playing with KVM and others if available. VB had the limitation of only
> running 32-bit systems. If I can find one that will host 64-bit systems
> I can nuke my win7 partition and only use it virtually when needed.
>

Virtual Box will host 64 bit systems, as long as your hardware has the 
hardware virtualization extensions on it.

KVM won't work at all without those hardware extensions.

I do have a Win7 virtual system under Virtual Box on Linux.  I'm 
thinking of getting rid of it, though, since the only time I ever turn 
it on is to install the latest patches.