Ben Barrett wrote: > The best linux-and-'doze combination I've seen is dual-booting and using > vmWare. I know it's not totally free, but they have a full trial > version... There is some overhead to keeping the windows environment > active in linux, but on a well-equipped system it wouldn't matter. > Apps run at nearly full-speed and you can always boot directly into > windows if something doesn't fully work -- it's safer to recover if > you're using a bootable installed windows and not just a > file-as-filesystem in linux.... > Other than that, you could try wine, Lindows, etc > [...] > Wow, that's scary. So you need IE to test pages? Another solution > would be to run a VNC session for using IE! This is totally free > (although microsoft wishes they could stop it -- they tried in some of > XP's licensing iirc) and it works GREAT over a decent LAN. Have a > dedicated winbloze box, running the latest up-to-date IE, and a VNC > server (local access only). You can use an entire virtual desktop, or > whatever setup you want -- I'd still recommend running your > virus-scanner on that system though!! M$ == danger as we all know.
I've used both. I found that vnc (and x2vnc) was much better than VMware. At the time, hardware was too slow to run VMware very well. (It was a 600 MHz Pentium II w/ 256 Mb RAM, I think.) I was doing massive C++ project builds under Visual C++, and what took one hour on native hardware took 3 hours on VMware. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
