Re: Looking for advice from the linux gods...
On Du, 19 feb 12, 12:16:06, timothy grey wrote: My father is the owner of a small business. He has 2 registers with pos software and a machine in the back for photoshop/pagemaker. I set up file sharing and backups in windows to hold the pos database and his other documents (ads, clip art, etc). He also has a laptop with access to those resources. The problem is that he also uses these devices for non-business things like web browsing -- and the performance is seriously lacking. I've had great success with arch on my systems, but need something very simple for him. I'd like to migrate his systems to debian, for its stability and ease of use...but i'd like some advice. Does it make sense to have debian do the file sharing, backup, and web browsing and then use a virtual machine with xp for his business applications (photoshop/pagemaker)? Any advice on how to get a nice, non-techhead friendly, setup would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Tim G. My brother tested Adobe Photoshop CS3 (or was that CS4?) in VirtualBox with a Core 2 Duo E8400, 2 GB RAM (of which 1,5 GB allocated to the virtual machine) and some capable nVidia card (with the proprietary driver). He was quite impressed (no significant overhead added) and the conclusion was that with more RAM even the host system would be usable at the same time. Other than that I subscribe to Allan's recommendation. Did you consider completely replacing the setup with (Debian) GNU/Linux? There are some POS softwares and most of them also run under Windows. Also, Photoshop and Pagemaker might be replaceable by Gimp and Inkscape. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Looking for advice from the linux gods...
On 2/20/2012 5:16 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: /snip/ My brother tested Adobe Photoshop CS3 (or was that CS4?) in VirtualBox with a Core 2 Duo E8400, 2 GB RAM (of which 1,5 GB allocated to the virtual machine) and some capable nVidia card (with the proprietary driver). He was quite impressed (no significant overhead added) and the conclusion was that with more RAM even the host system would be usable at the same time. Other than that I subscribe to Allan's recommendation. Did you consider completely replacing the setup with (Debian) GNU/Linux? There are some POS softwares and most of them also run under Windows. Also, Photoshop and Pagemaker might be replaceable by Gimp and Inkscape. Kind regards, Andrei Someone who has already bought and paid for Photoshop would be a fool to scrap it for anything else, so long as it runs! --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f42b229.7030...@optonline.net
Looking for advice from the linux gods...
My father is the owner of a small business. He has 2 registers with pos software and a machine in the back for photoshop/pagemaker. I set up file sharing and backups in windows to hold the pos database and his other documents (ads, clip art, etc). He also has a laptop with access to those resources. The problem is that he also uses these devices for non-business things like web browsing -- and the performance is seriously lacking. I've had great success with arch on my systems, but need something very simple for him. I'd like to migrate his systems to debian, for its stability and ease of use...but i'd like some advice. Does it make sense to have debian do the file sharing, backup, and web browsing and then use a virtual machine with xp for his business applications (photoshop/pagemaker)? Any advice on how to get a nice, non-techhead friendly, setup would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Tim G.
Re: Looking for advice from the linux gods...
On 2012-02-19 12:16:06, timothy grey wrote: My father is the owner of a small business. He has 2 registers with pos software and a machine in the back for photoshop/pagemaker. I set up file sharing and backups in windows to hold the pos database and his other documents (ads, clip art, etc). He also has a laptop with access to those resources. The problem is that he also uses these devices for non-business things like web browsing -- and the performance is seriously lacking. I've had great success with arch on my systems, but need something very simple for him. I'd like to migrate his systems to debian, for its stability and ease of use...but i'd like some advice. Does it make sense to have debian do the file sharing, backup, and web browsing and then use a virtual machine with xp for his business applications (photoshop/pagemaker)? Any advice on how to get a nice, non-techhead friendly, setup would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Tim G. Linux is efficient with hardware, but if you run Firefox you may be using the same application on a different OS. Try different browsers (firefox, opera etc). If browsing is really an issue then I think you have other problems (malware, slow connection etc). It will be overhead managing a second operating system, so you will have to figure if cure is worth the medicine. If you introduce it you will have to support it. There is overhead in virtualization as well and could be significant if you are low on memory in the first place. Have you played with VirtualBox? Maybe try run Linux under Windows before you undertake the work to do the other way. Consider buying faster hardware. Hosted services might be an option for you as well if you have reliable internet connectivity. Here are some backup options for instance: http://ostatic.com/blog/five-linux-compatible-online-backup-and-storage-services, http://www.tarsnap.com/. /Allan -- Allan Wind Life Integrity, LLC http://lifeintegrity.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120219175847.ga27...@lifeintegrity.com
