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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers PC User/UNIX Novice - Where do I start? Post 302469473 by Corona688 on Saturday 6th of November 2010 12:06:29 PM
Old 11-06-2010
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Originally Posted by mightymo26
-Do I buy a new desktop workstation to support it or partition my current windows laptop?
Personally I'd suggest neither. Dual boot can be dicey -- any mistake in setting up either environment may well ruin both -- and a brand new machine is overkill(and might be not quite supported quite yet, too!) VMware would probably work, but installing into VMware isn't quite the same experience as installing into a real machine.

An aging PIII or P4 can run most Linux distros quite well enough for personal use, given sufficient RAM(512M and up) and disk space(30G and up). More specialized distros can make do with quite a bit less. If you're not expecting blazing graphics, you may be surprised by what an old machine is capable of...
Last edited by Corona688; 11-06-2010 at 01:12 PM..
 

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vmmouse_detect(1)					      General Commands Manual						 vmmouse_detect(1)

NAME

       vmmouse_detect - VMware mouse device autodetection tool

SYNOPSIS

       vmmouse_detect

OPTIONS

       vmmouse_detect has no options

DESCRIPTION

       vmmouse_detect  is  a  tool  for detecting if running in a VMware environment where vmmouse is used.  It exits with a 0 return value if the
       vmmouse client is enabled, and 1 if not.

DIAGNOSTICS

       vmmouse_detect's exit status is used to communicate information.

       0      vmmouse_detect found a mouse and exited normally.

       1      Either the vmmouse client was not enabled, or it is not being run from within a VMware virtual machine.

BUGS

       Please report bugs in vmmouse_detect <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdetect/vmmouse_detect>.

AUTHORS

       vmmouse_detect is copyright 2007 VMware, Inc.

LICENSING

       The vmmouse_detect source code is licensed under a BSD-like license.  See COPYING for details.

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SEE ALSO

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