ArcheOS VirtualBox

[Domenico Giusti]

Hi Nicola,

of course portable OS are wonderful instruments for teaching, etc...
But don't forget that ArcheOS is a live distro, so is portable by
definition. Moreover, I'm not a developer, but I think that the
"speed" depends a lot on the hardware resources and I don't know the
powerful of Ricardo's PC. Furthermore, we have to consider that
ArcheOS is a big and complete distro, but less huge than OSGeo-Live.
I don't have much experience with OSGeo-Live USB, but the choice of a
light graphical environment could be significant.

So, in my opinion the best approach could be in testing and
benchmarking the USB live solution (before claim the shame).
In the next future I will try again building my own ArcheOS-USB, I'll
run it and I'll test it. After, I'll post my observations.
Maybe you can do the same.

Ciao

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Nicola Schavottiello
<nic@imagoculturae.com> wrote:
> That's a shame! it would have been nice to have a portable OS, this is for
> many reasons:
> portability(in fact), testing purposes, convincing people to migrated from
> other OS, teaching etc...
> Well... I hope that in the future will run faster or that there will be a
> portable version.
> Regards
> Nic
>
>
> On 13/12/2012 17:33, Domenico Giusti wrote:
>>
>> Personally I've never installed ArcheOS in a USB drive with success,
>> but Ricardo has done, as posted in this mail:
>> http://lists.linux.it/pipermail/archeos-dev/2012-January/000293.html
>> As he wrote "ArcheOS revealed to be a very "heavy" and slow operating
>> system to run from a pendrive" (with GNOME).
>> Instead, I'm feeling very satisfied with my virtual machine but I can't
>> compare.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Nicola Schavottiello
>> <nic@imagoculturae.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> What about running on a pen drive or on an SD card?
>>> Is this possible?How is it done? Does it run faster or slower?
>>> Many thanks
>>> Nicola Schiavottiello
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13/12/2012 12:41, Domenico Giusti wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> I've recently helped some students from the University of Ferrara to
>>>> install ArcheOS in their notebooks (most of the time with M$ or MAC
>>>> OS). So, as graduated FLOSS pusher of the Department, for a
>>>> low-traumatic first approach, I usually suggest to my clients to
>>>> install Virtual Box and then create their virtual ArcheOS from the
>>>> ISO. My ArcheOS (built from git repository) also runs in a VB machine,
>>>> and some times I've exported and shared my own virtual machine.
>>>>
>>>> I'm thinking it could be fine if ArcheOS will also be released in a
>>>> virtual disk, like OSGeo Live does
>>>> (http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/virtualization_quickstart.html).
>>>>
>>>> Have you ever discussed this possibility?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>
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