[Discuss] Light Linux Distro for VM usage

[Chris O'Connell]

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.
>
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