you will probably want more ram, put a gig in the thing and use vmware. I have successfully donethat on a 1.4ghz laptop; ram is the key. 2x512 sticks of ddr aren't that expensive; sdram is a little more so. Regards, Kerry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "alex wallis" <alexwallis646@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 6:13 AM Subject: linux on a windows box > Hi list. > I'm very new to linux, in fact i'm really only used to windows. > However I have a question I was hoping someone might be able to help me > with. > At the moment i'm using a laptop with 512 mb of ram, and a 1.80 ghz > processor, running windows xp home. > I'm wanting to get set up with a linux OS, but I don't really want to go > down the route of jewel boot, and I don't have enough resources to run > linux > under vmware. > As I understand it it is very tricky to get a screen reader working in a > vmware environment anyway. > The option i'd like to use I found out about recently is something called > colinux > available from > www.colinux.org > I was wondering has anyone had experience with using this, and getting > linux > setup using it and obviously running a screen reader? > I tried asking on the colinux mailing list but Nobody seemed to no > anything > so thought i'd come to you guys. > Thanks for your help. > Alex. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
