At 08:55 AM 10/9/99 -0400, Alex ZIJDENBOS wrote:
>On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 10:56:08AM +0200, Patrick Putteman wrote:
>| I've ran VMWARE on a P233 and ran Win95 quite happily. Don't think about
>| running WIN98 or NT because that will be just too slow.
>
>Possibly NT running off an existing disk partition will work; at least
>in my case that runs a lot faster than running it off a virtual
>disk.
interesting. last time i heard this discussion (a few months back), the
concensus seemed to be the opposite. i wonder if something has changed?
>| [...]
>| I recently read in a leading UK PC magazine (PCPLUS) that Vmware was a
>| clever but stupid and useless product. I don't agree! Its the Ideal way of
>| developing and testing cross-platform applications (or webpages for that
>| matter) without the need of several expensive machines. But then PCPLUS
only
>| talks about Redhat, Suse and Debian as being THE linux distro's....
>
>Yeah... I find too many of these PC magazines biased to one thing or
>the other (usually M$). Personally, I've found vmware worth every
>penny I paid for it. Being able to run windoze on top of linux without
>rebooting, to look at the occasional word document or powerpoint file,
>is great. Even better: we have a linux box in the office which is used
>for CD burning and some web serving tasks; during the day, it is now
>also used by our administrative assistant, who is happily running NT
>through VMware in full-screen mode, without interrupting the other
>functions of the box...
yes! this is precisely what i want to do! i need to run quicken99 H&B
under NT, as well as (occasionally) some of the office apps. Other than
that, i want linux for the server-type functions.
