From quanta Thu Nov 05 00:02:25 2009 From: Andrew Lowe Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:02:25 +0000 To: quanta Subject: Re: [Quanta] Back to the future. Message-Id: <78DB9167-8D8C-439D-A23E-4B03A51AB806 () manildra ! com ! au> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=quanta&m=125737940408845 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============0335077431==" --===============0335077431== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail-45--100728431" --Apple-Mail-45--100728431 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; delsp="yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Why not run a virtual machine for Slackware 12.2 (or other distros). This way, no reboot is needed, just fire up your virtual machine, and away you go (full screen if you need, or in a window). The only reason I can think of is amount of RAM needed.... but RAM is quite cheap now days... VirtualBox is free, and VMWare Player is free as in beer... -- Andrew Lowe System Administrator & Programmer Information Technology Manildra Group Email: andrew.lowe@manildra.com.au Phone: 02 4423 8270 Mobile: 0413 23 8270 Fax: 02 4421 7760 On 2009-11-05, at 08:31 , John Culleton wrote: > On a new partition I just installed Slackware 12.2 complete with the > Quanta available on that release. So I still have Quanta, at the cost > of a reboot when I need to use it. > > When Quanta 4 or whatever comes out I can install that on my Slack > 13 partition which has Qt 4. > -- > John Culleton > "Create Book Covers with Scribus" > http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html > _______________________________________________ > Quanta mailing list > Quanta@mail.kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/quanta --Apple-Mail-45--100728431 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Why not run a virtual m= achine for Slackware 12.2 (or other distros).  This way, no reboot i= s needed, just fire up your virtual machine, and away you go (full screen= if you need, or in a window).
The only reason I can think of is amou= nt of RAM needed.... but RAM is quite cheap now days...
Virtual= Box is free, and VMWare Player is free as in beer...
-- 
Andrew Lowe
  &n= bsp;System Administrator & Programmer
    &nbs= p;  Information Technology
     &nb= sp;     Manildra Group

Email:   = ;andrew.lowe@manildra.com.= au
Phone:   02 4423 8270
Mobile:  0413 23 8270Fax:       02 4421 7760 

On 2009-11-05, at 08:31 , John Culleton wrote:

On a new p= artition I just installed  Slackware 12.2 complete with the
Quan= ta available on that release. So I still have Quanta, at the cost
of a= reboot when I need to use it.

When Quanta 4 or whatever comes ou= t I can install that on my Slack
13 partition which has Qt 4.
-- <= br>John Culleton
"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
http://www.booklocker.com/books/405= 5.html
_______________________________________________
Quanta m= ailing list
Quanta@mail.kde.org
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listin= fo/quanta

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