Apologies if this is a duplicate - the original seems to have disappeared into the ether....
My Laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L40 with a 2-core 1.6 MHz Pentium processor, 2GB RAM (the maximum the machine will take) and an 80 GB SATA HDD. My dilemma is this: The machine has no built-in microphone or webcam. I have a (shudder) Microsoft Lifecam VX 3500 which has a built-in microphone which we use mainly for Skype video calls. (Also it appears that although there are Linux drivers for an HP Officejet J5700 series, the scanning bit of that doesn't work). This webcam works in Cheese, but NOT in the latest Skype version for Linux, and I can't afford (at the moment) to buy a new Linux compatible Webcam with microphone. My question is this, which would be the best use of resources on this machine - to dual boot 10.04 and Windows 7 or to install Windows 7 within a virtual machine on 10.04? (Assuming that a virtual machine installation of Windows 7 would be able to access the USB port the webcam is plugged into...) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
