[MLUG] netbooks / laptops

Peter Silva Peter.A.Silva at gmail.com
Sun Mar 8 14:25:27 EDT 2009


iirc, atoms don´t have the virtualization support


On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:38 AM, <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 10:46:03AM -0500, David Pelletier wrote:
> > Well, frankly, I need a copy of Windows for my work. I do contractual
> > development work (mostly web development) and I have to be able to test
> my
> > stuff under Windows. Since I never actually bought a retail copy of
> Windows,
> > the only legal copies I have are always on my laptops, which is perfect,
> > because I would never use Windows at home anyway. ;)
> >
> > I installed Debian (not done setting it up to my taste though) and set it
> to
> > dual boot Debian/WinXP.
>
> That's what I'm planning to do, after I order mine after I find out that
> there's no problems with finding maintainably free drivers.  There are a
> few situations where I need to use Windows -- mostly to check that
> things I write that are supposed to be portable between Linux and
> Windows really are.
>
> By the way, does anyone know whether the processor in this machine is
> one that supports full virtualization?
>
> -- hendrik
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