On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, alex wallis wrote: > 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 What's wrong with dual-boot? And wouldn't you want to move from windows to linux one day? > under vmware. Well those specks should run a vmware I guess... > As I understand it it is very tricky to get a screen reader working in a > vmware environment anyway. Well no not really. > 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? No. But I still think your better off with a full install of linux to your hard disk. -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ d.dalton at iinet.net.au
