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Compusec

http://www.ce-infosys.com/english/downloads/free_compusec/

Fast and good enough to keep out the average bad guy, or local LE.

You could try Compusec. Works for me. Takes a while to encrypt the disk the first time though. See here: http://www.ce-infosys.com/english/downloads/free_compusec/index.html

http://www.ce-infosys.com/english/products/free_compusec.html

Free, European full disk encryption!
http://www.ce-infosys.com/english/downloads/free_compusec/index.html

I can tell you that Compusec's free security software does the job very well, you cannot use it with an MBR boot manager like GRUB or Lilo as it's loader resides in the MBR. http://www.ce-infosys.com/english/downloads/free_c ompusec/index.html

As to virtualization, I use VMware to run Windows under Linux.

It's ok if you encrypt EVERYTHING and with the right software/hardware it's fast and easy.

If you use hardware encryption (eg those seagate drives) there is no measurable performance hit but you don't need even that with software like this:

http://www.ce-infosys.com/english/products/free_co mpusec.html

The only things unencrypted are the partition table and the pre-boot authentication and I haven't noticed any performance hit, disks are sloooow anyway.

Also it's actually MORE convenient that an uncrypted disk, I enter my user and password about three seconds after turning the machine on and go find some coffee; the machine is ready to use when I come back. Without the Single Sign On that comes with the encryption I enter my password about half way through the boot process.

After that you only have to worry about USB drives, CDRs and backups.