yes, I guess it was off topic. Sorry about that.
I do think vmware is a great product and would definitely recommend it to
anyone who really needs to run windows only apps (e.g. visual basic) or
need to do cross platform development. I, however, use windows very little
since, as you said, most things you can do in windows can also be done in
linux now days.
I was merely making sure I didn't shell out $99 or $75 or whatever vmware
costs for students just to do my visual basic homework or test my samba
config when there was or was soon going to be a free replacement for that
software.
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> Fully off-topic, but.....
>
> I can't really give you any info on FreeMWare, but VMWare is an
> excellent product, and if you're in some position where you absolutely
> _have_ to run a VM, the $75 price tag is not that steep. You can also get a
> free 30 day license, and as far as I know you can renew ad nauseum... The
> only complaint I have is the memory requirements, but then you _are_ running
> 2 OSes...
>
> I have a laptop with VMWare & run VMs for Win2kRC2 and Win98SE - and
> I rarely power them on for anything other than the "ooohhh" factor it
> induces in my coworkers. I really though the VM's would come in handy, but
> just about everything I do these days has a Linux counterpart and I can stay
> MS-free....
>
> YMMV
> Don
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David van Balen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 12:40 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [expert] vmware alternative
> >
> >
> >
> > I've been testing vmware running nt on my system and it works
> > fine except
> > for that fact that nt runs pretty slow on 32 mb of memory.
> > I'd been planning to buy it, but I just came across FreeMWare
> > (www.freemware.org) which aims to be a free alternative to
> > vmware. There
> > isn't a whole lot of info as to what point the product is at,
> > although it
> > seems to be very experimental at this point, and I was
> > wondering if anyone
> > out there has any more detailed info on how this is
> > progressing and when
> > they plan to release a _relatively_ functional version... it would be
> > really cool if I could get this free product instead of
> > paying for vmware
> > (up until now I have paid nothing at all for any of the software I'm
> > running on under linux and vmware is about to become the first).
> >
> >
> > DvB
> >
> >
>
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