[Cialug] portable, configureable ubuntu....

[David Champion]

3D acceleration is supported in some of the VM software now, but about 
10 to 20% slower than on the native hardware... so about like running 
games under Wine.

-dc

jrnosee at gmail.com wrote:
> and it doesn't let me use nvidia drivers either....
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:48 PM, David Champion <dave at dchamp.net 
> <mailto:dave at dchamp.net>> wrote:
>
>     If you have the ability to run one of the VM systems (VMWare, Xen
>     etc...), you could just carry around a VM image... that will
>     abstract the hardware issues, but you have to have the player
>     installed on the host PC, which isn't always an option.
>
>     -dc
>
>     jrnosee at gmail.com <mailto:jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>         Ok, so I know it's supposed to be easy enough to put ubuntu on
>         a portable drive.  My question then is, is it like a live cd
>         would be?  I've never set one up but I would imagine it would
>         save your changes (txt files, installed apps, etc).  Is there
>         any way to make it so it could use a general config set or
>         select a set for a specific computer?  Say if I want a config
>         that uses the nvidia drivers for my personal computer, but
>         still use generic elsewhere?
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