OH MY GAWD....THAT ROCKS!!! (translated...I'm gonna do that on my work machine ASAP)
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 06:30:48 -0700 (PDT), John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I work at a job doing mostly ASP.NET programming on a > Win2k server, and I was really wanting a local Linux > environment (cygwin won't work) to test some stuff > with, so I figured I would try the Bochs CPU emulator > (http://bochs.sourceforge.net/). > > I never played with Bochs before, but > installing/running Linux on Windows in a real VM is > brain-dead easy. Just download, install, > Start>Programs>Bochs x.x.x>DLX Linux, and I'm back in > a place ruled by logic rather than marketing hype. ;) > > Obligatory screenshot: > http://fuji.homeunix.org/bochs.jpg > > Strongly recommended for those who want to try running > Linux on their Windows boxen without jumping through > lots of hoops. And to boot, you get a virtual machine > environment to install other operating systems in, > though you won't get the speed of other commercial > VMs, like VMware. For my command line driven purposes, > it's good enough for me. Now to attempt to install > OpenBSD in Bochs on my Win2k box! > > John Hebert > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
