[Xastir] New Xastir virtual machine with Xubuntu 8.04 available.

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:42:50PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> Thanks to the enthusiasm of Lee Bengston, there is a new pre-built Xastir
> virtual machine running the latest version of Xubuntu (Ubuntu with the 
> lightweight Xfce desktop) available.
> 
> Lee was motivated to create the machine and sent it to me for testing, and 
> I updated it with the very latest VMware tools available in VMware Workstation.
> This means that as of this new virtual machine, it is no longer necessary to 
> do strange things to get the desktop resized to match your window --- the 
> newest VMware tools "autofit" the desktop to whatever window you have as soon 
> as you log in to the VM.  Thereafter, it will autofit again if you resize the 
> window.  This takes at least a little hassle out of using it.

Oh, yeah, and another feature of the new vmware-tools: cut/paste of files
now works between guest and host machines, so arcane tricks to copy files
between windows and linux are no longer necessary.  This takes at least a 
lot of hassle out of using it.

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