[ExI] virtualbox etc.

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 22:13:38 UTC 2016


Bought a Chromebook - maybe you saw my email.  The kernel is Linux.  So far
I am really happy with it.  Thanks!  bill w

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 6:38 PM, CryptAxe <cryptaxe at gmail.com> wrote:

> I use virtualbox when I'm programming to test things in different
> environments, it's meant more for business and development applications
> than for your purposes. I still recommend the mac mini. And then later you
> can decide to move to Linux, the jump is well worth it!
> On Feb 28, 2016 3:36 PM, "William Flynn Wallace" <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> First, this seems inferior:
>>
>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2410292,00.asp
>>
>> Second, while I have visited Wikipedia and explored several definitions
>> of things, I still cannot figure out the damned thing is for.
>>
>> It runs a virtual copy of an OS, right?  Why?  If I downloaded Linux, why
>> not run that straight rather than through Virtual box?  If I run Windows
>> through it will that fix any problems?  See how lost I am?
>>
>> Maybe it's hard for you to understand that from what I read about this
>> stuff, I am a total beginner and thus lost.
>>
>> bill w
>>
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