[Digikam-users] Best LInux distro for my needs? / Debian in VirtualBox

[Gerlos]

Vlado Plaga ha scritto:
> Am Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:16:29 -0400
> schrieb Paul Verizzo <paulv at paulv.net>:
> 
>> And no, dual boot isn't the solution.  I want to be able to use the rest of my computer while working in DK, to say nothing of the new partition thing. 
> 
> Yes, I remember your e-mail on digiKam/Windows instability. I answered
> with "why not dual-boot?", and your answer makes sense. So here is
> another suggestion: use VirtualBox, as Gerlos thought you wanted to do,
> because he thought you were just talking about one computer instead of
> two.

Definitvely, I misunderstood Paul Verizzo... but some of that things are 
still valid: if you remove things that you don't need, you can run any 
linux distro on that old machine. Just be sure to have at least one GB 
of RAM. You can work with less, but will be a pain.
I always run latest Digikam with an old Pentium 4 @2.6 GHz with 2 GB of 
RAM and it's good for my needs. It is still quite slow on RAW images, 
but for them I can use my macbook pro buyed last year, that is a lot faster.

I run latest Mandriva on the Pentium 4 machine and latest Kubuntu on the 
macbook pro, and they run very well. I prefer Kubuntu because of APT, 
but in any other way, they are both good.

> I use VirtualBox under Ubuntu, and I'm running Windows 2000 (Internet
> Explorer 6), Windows XP (Internet Explorer 8) and Windows 7 (IE 9
> preview) in it. It works very well and with the "shared folder" feature
> transferring files between host and guest is relatively convenient (and
> should certainly be faster than with USB1).

I can confirm that, given a powerful enough machine, you can run any 
system (such as Kubuntu) in Virtualbox, and it will run quite well. You 
need only to have enough RAM. Think of 1 GB for the guest system running 
digikam and at least 512 MB for the host system.

regards
gerlos