glassJAw Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 What distro do you guys use under Parallels that isn't intense. openSuse causes my Macbook to have it's fans on the whole time and that makes me uncomfortable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxfan66 Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 puppy linux or DSL. These distros can even be made deb package compatible easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 What distro do you guys use under Parallels that isn't intense. openSuse causes my Macbook to have it's fans on the whole time and that makes me uncomfortable. OpenSUSE with KDE is a no-no for limited resources. Debian with Xfce4 could be an ideal choice. Consider also Slackware and derivatives (SLAX, Vector,Zenwalk...) Also, plenty of RAM is a must for virtualization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my1stmacisaHACK Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 if its under virtualization.. go for linux with lightweight desktop environment xubuntu,dreamlinux, or dsl.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alicheusz Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 Linux under virualization for some reason don't work well on Mac OS X, Fastest I have was SLAX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheese N' Pancakes Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 puppy linux is the fastest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 Linux under virualization for some reason don't work well on Mac OS X Probably because Parallels is basically {censored}. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlinebacon Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 You might want to use something like slackware, which is pretty light, or maybe a BSD like Freebsd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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