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</head><body>A) that box will run linux just fine<br>
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B) Win10 on a machine of that capability is just shy of molasses ( in August, but molasses).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 7, 2017 11:45:02 AM EDT, Neal Rhodes <neal@mnopltd.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks to all for the replies. That does sound like less grief. However, I noted to my regret that although we have a couple of Win8 VMs we could use, the HP Pavilion running Centos maxes out at 8GB RAM. Cannot add anymore. <br />
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Much as I prefer Linux, looks like I can buy a <b>HP 6305 Pro Desktop PC - AMD Athlon A4-5300B 3.4GHz 8gb 250gb DVD Windows 10 Professional (Certified Refurbished) </b>$122. <br />
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On Wed, 2017-09-06 at 16:34 -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
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+1 for using VMs.
On 09/06/2017 03:55 PM, Michael Potter wrote:
> I do my mobile development in VMs for precisely this reason. The build tools
> change too quickly and likely to break other things on my machine. Operating
> system updates also break the build tools.
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> I keep multiple VMs and then install all new tools on a new VM. Then migrate
> each app to the new VM as work needs to be done on it.
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> Then I can get a new host machine and simply copy the VMs to the new host and
> all certificates and build environments remain unchanged.
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> Once all apps are migrated to the new VM I delete the older VM.
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