a friend of mine said last night his music files won't play anymore since he recently ran vista's upgrade, and he asked me if that might mean some updated vista software is now deciding that some of his music is illegit. i couldn't answer that. (can you?) but i did suggest it might be time for him to give linux a try. now this man is smart (a macalester valedictorian), and carefully chooses where to spend his precious time (for $ he drives a bus parttime, contributes major energy to Boys to Men). my experience is almost entirely centos/rhel/ubuntu, nevertheless i recommended linux mint. (what would you have recommended?) he said his machine has 850mb ram. i said that's probably powerful enough to either run linux inside windows or vice versa (my relevant experience is merely kvm under rhel, ought i have recommended virtualbox or something else?), but of course there's always dual boot, and not strictly any need to repartition (eg with wubi). now just in case he actually shows any further interest, may i ask, what corrections or recommendations do you suggest? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20101017/2d0db9b5/attachment.htm