Mark Boon wrote: > > On 8-apr-08, at 08:50, steve uurtamo wrote: > >> There's another way, and it's not too bad, depending upon how >> often you want to switch operating systems. >> >> Get a second drive. > > Oh, that is so passé! ;-) > > I gladly pay $80 for VMWare Fusion and can use whatever OS pleases me > at the same time as Mac OS. The windows can even interact with > copy-paste and drag-and-drop. I just haven't found a reason yet why > I'd install Linux or FreeBSD. Who knows someone will write a Go > program that only runs in Linux that I'd like to have? If you have Mac OS you already have a reasonable OS so there is no reason to go to Linux.
But how do you get Windows on VMWare? Do you use an illegal copy or do you buy a new copy of Windows for installation? How much does it cost for Vista if I were to go to the store to buy a "legal" copy? I would never do that unless my job or some other compelling reason required this, but just to put things into perspective, how much would it cost? I don't have a problem with paying for VMWare, and there are other simulators too that are open source) and I would even put Windows on it for those rare occasions when I could use windows, but not if I have to support MS to do it. I'm pretty sure Windows forbids you run a payed for copy of their OS on more than 1 computer at a time without paying them. Years ago I used VMWare at my job and it worked fine but it's still not quite the same as running a dedicated OS. But I hear it's not bad these days. - Don > > Mark > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
