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<big>Without repeating the whole darned thread, here are my additional
thoughts.<br>
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Live USB: It' still a dual boot scenario. My limited experience with
Knoppix on USB shows it is vastly slower than running it off of the CD,
which is vastly slower than running from a hard drive, of course. My
experience shows Virtual Box to have no glaringly obvious speed
differences compared to native. One reason might be the default RAM
allocated in VB is rather small, 300-500kb. I set all VB installations
at 1 GB or better, especially since I want to run a certain graphics
program on it. <br>
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I have Ubuntu Wubi on my NTFS partition as my dual boot. Too bad there
aren't other distros that do this. (Corel Linux did, way way back.)<br>
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Puppy Linux on DVD will let you write program changes back to the
disc. Pretty sweet. Unfortunately, dK isn't one of the repository
apps but I would guess that someone here knows how to do it if they
were so inclined.<br>
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I've been re-re-reading the VB instructions about the Guest Additions,
and more particularly, the Shared Folder function. Boy, what a
morass! You aren't done after installation of GA, back to the
terminal. The "folders," drives actually, are in /media. OK, but then
they are locked out unless you right click and change sharing. Uses my
Windows username and password! Then Nautlus asks to update things.
Well, OK, why not? Then I sent the drive to the desktop, but the icon
there won't open the drive although it did from /media. The warning
has a typical cryptic linux terminal instruction to correct this.
Meanwhile, when I try to set up digiKam, I can set my D drive as the
source for the photos (3 folders within), but I can't open up the
directory tree of my C drive to locate the database, where I keep it. <br>
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If I was smart, I'd just be happy with dK 2.0 on Windows (thanks,
Giles!). <br>
<br>
Paul<br>
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