Chris Green wrote: > songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote: >> Chris Green wrote: >> ... >> >> i haven't needed them and also haven't gotten into >> them. >> >> >> > I'm particularly interested in a way to run (say) Debian Bullseye >> > within my Debian Bookworm system. I'm looking for something slightly >> > 'lighter weight' than a full-blown virtual machine like virtualbox >> > though I guess I can use virtualbox if I have to. >> >> the easiest and lightest weight to me is just having >> another partition and booting that. no extra layers of >> anything needed at all. >> > No use at all! :-) It's a scanner applet to drive my OKI scanner and > I want the output to end up on my working system where I will use it > in E-Mail or whatever.
can you say what that scanner applet is? > A VirtualBox instance running the old distro would work for me as you > can share files between that an the 'parent' system but it really > seems like overkill for running just one little app/program. > > At present the simplest solution for me seems to be to install the old > distro on a low-power consumption system and simply run the scanner > utility via 'ssh -X' so that I can see it on my desktop screen. That > does work OK, the only downside is the small extra bit of power > consumption. it seems like that right now, but perhaps some poking around may come up with another way. is the constraint for the applet that it needs python 2? or? songbird
