[SGVLUG] Linux laptops

[Dan Kegel]

8GB?  That was enough yesterday, not so much today :-)

I now put 12-16GB on my interactive machines routinely so doing a build or
two in containers while running Chrome on the desktop doesn't make them thrash.


On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Henry B (Hank) Hotz, CISSP
<hbhotz at oxy.edu> wrote:
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>> On Mar 10, 2016, at 3:11 PM, Braddock Gaskill <braddock at braddock.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Dustin Laurence
>> <dllaurence at dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>> I have a vague memory that VMWare is considerably more seamless than
>>> VirtualBox. I took a class where all the work was in a VirtualBox guest,
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>> On Mac, I had a MUCH MUCH better experience running Linux in VMWare
>> than VirtualBox.  This is circa late 2014, and VMWare has never given
>> me a reason to look back.
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>> Although I think VMWare is much more expensive on Windows than Mac,
>> where it has biting competition from Parallels for the Windows-on-Mac
>> market.
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>> -braddock
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> On Windows, isn’t there a VMWare Reader for free? On Mac there’s just VMWare Fusion which costs money (unlike VirtualBox), but isn’t horrible for price. I use VirtualBox, and the last couple of years it’s been pretty solid, running on a Mac.
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> One “hidden” cost is that a machine running a VM still needs the horsepower that *all* the processing requires. Maybe I’m spoiled, but an 8GB machine still bogs down if I do a lot of switching between MacOS and RHEL activity after using one or the other exclusively for a while.
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