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I have a ubuntu gnome desktop, and I use Virtualbox - I installed XP and Vista on there, and had no trouble with Dreamlinux either. I like the dock, and would like to find out if I can put it in my gnome, because I find Avant Window Manager has some difficulties at times.

Why are you stuck with only one choice? Is this review only for windows users who use VMware? Perhaps I am on the wrong page...
Ben

Personally I found Dreamlinux pretty easy to install. Not as easy as say Ubuntu, but the new Dreamlinux installer beats the hell out of the old one.

I really like this distro, which is weird because I really don’t like OS X and I really don’t like PClinuxOS, but something about Dreamlinux appeals.

I haven’t tried installing Dreamlinux in VMware, but, I have installed it on 9 different computers without issue.

Dreamlinux runs beautifully on my laptop. Setting it up and configuring it were really easy too.
Hmm

Very sad I agree with Tux and Ktty. I have tried UBUNTU on VMware and it will easily install but with DreamLinux it is a different history sad sad. For that reason right now I am downloading Sabayon mini eddition so I would make some comments on how did it go.

PD. Please excuse my shitty English hehehe since it is not my first languague.

Regards to everyone,
FW
Forbidden Lover

itī s a pity because it looks awesome from my point of view. not as good as my distribution of choice (sam linux) but the "promised" media part would be a treat for my living-room computer.
nah! i will keep on searching ...
thank you for the informative review and comments you all ;)
kitty

Correct, you have to set it as ide, no the default scsi, in order to get it to work under VMware.

I have been installing Linux distros for years and never had much of problem with any of them. But when I tried to install DreamLinux I wanted to rip my hair out. They spent so much time making it look pretty they didn’t bother to make it easy to install, which I think is a huge mistake, and, probably the reason you don’t hear many people talking about it.

No matter how many times I tried, on no matter how many computers I tried, it would not install for one reason or another, it varied a lot, but nothing resulted in a proper installation.
I checked to make sure the iso burned properly, I tried different burners on different computers using different softwares, I even tried multiple kinds of cd-r’s and cd-rw’s, and dvd-r’s. Still no luck.

The only way I was able to get DreamLinux to function at all was by loading it in VMware.

DreamLinux would be great, despite a few quirks that were pointed out in the review (such as the minimize and maximize buttons) if it was easy to install. Which right now, it’s not.
TuxCrusader

If you add another hardrive in your vmware settings to use ide rather than scsi, it should find the vmware hardrive, and you’ll be able to install it.
Mark