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How about something running XFCE? I've never used it before, but isn't it "lighter" than a distro using Gnome/KDE? Less graphics and less libraries, etc? Would XFCE still run Flash and FireFox? On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Edward Ned Harvey <blu at nedharvey.com>wrote: > > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss- > > bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of aldo albanese > > > > I would like to use a light Linux Distro that I can use within Oracle VM > > box. My intend is to use it exclusively for browser activities without > worry > > about getting a virus. It should be fast to load and should have all the > built > > in applications like Adobe Flash. This Distro should work well inside > the > VM > > using a 15 Inc. screen laptop. I have issues with all the distros that > I'm testing > > fitting the entire screen. Right now tested OpenSuse and Fedora. > > There is no such thing as a "light" distro, if you want a desktop and a web > browser with flash, etc. Your probable choices for a user-interface > desktop > would be Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint. > > You're running the linux machine in the VM guest, right? Not the host? > Make sure you install VirtualBox Tools (or whatever they're calling it now) > into the guest OS. Then you shouldn't have any display sizing or > performance problems. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Chris O'Connell http://outlookoutbox.blogspot.com
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