[Discuss] Light Linux Distro for VM usage

[aldo albanese]

Thanks, I will try it right now.

Yesterday, I was testing 3 distros.  BackTrack, Mint and Suse via Oracle Virtual Box.  I like Linux but I'm also somewhat new to it. I enjoy the monthly Blu meeting and I'm learning a lot from all of you.
As I mentioned, one of the the issues that I'm experiencing is the screen resolution on my Laptop on the vm side.   It is a new HP laptop with Windows 7 as a host and VM installed.  I do not mind spending time to find the solutions for all these problems but I can't seem to find how to add a new screen resolution to BackTrack and Suse.  I think BackTrack is a Ubuntu Distro.  Anyone that could bring me to the right direction?  I installed the VM guess additions without results.

In addition, Linux is a great product but it seems that you need to learn every singles OS. As of an example, Crome did not want to install on Mint, not without knowing how to really do it.  With SUSE was easy, just click install.  The printer discovery in Mint is not there, I can't add a new printer.  SUSE finds the HP network printer but does not install properly.  Mint has the right screen resolution but the other two not. 


Thanks in advance for your help,
Aldo    


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 From: Edward Ned Harvey <blu at nedharvey.com>
To: 'aldo albanese' <aldo_albanese at yahoo.com>; Discuss at blu.org 
Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 9:35 AM
Subject: RE: [Discuss] Light Linux Distro for VM usage
 
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey
> 
> Don't know why I didn't think of this before.  Chrome.  We have a

Hey, check this:
http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/index.php

He has virtualbox builds of chromeos (or USB bootable variants) available
for download.  He explicitly says "HTML5 and Flash supported..."