From: Chip on
Mark Hill wrote:
> On 2003-06-23,
> philo <philo(a)plazaearth.com> wrote:
>> i gave vmware a try on an amd-1200 with 512 megs of ram
>> (in my case i installed win98 as guest on a linux machine)
>> the guest OS took such a hit in performance it was just about
>> unusable
>>
>> by all means...dual boot!
>
> Another alternative would be using zipslack with any wanted extras,
> (such as X and KDE), pulled off the main Slackware tree. There's
> no need for repartitioning then. (However, I'm not sure of the
> compatability of zipslack's umsdos filesystem with NTFS formatted
> drives).
>
I'd recommend using gnome seeing as tot the fact that it is more
beginner friendly.