On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 11:03, you wrote: > You missed an important detail... > > What type of development are you doing? If it's web work, you probably > need very little connectivity to the system. If it's GUI development > for workstations in the windows arena you're gonna have difficulty > justifying Linux on your PC. > > I run Linux in a mixed windows/linux WAN, and do a lost of stuff vi > rdesktop to a terminal services server, but do web/linux stuff locally. > > Cheers, Me.
That's a good point. You could also do the opposite, and have a Windows machine on your desk, and a Linux machine under your desk. You could run VNC on the Windows machine and switch to a full-screen Linux desktop as required. That's what I do- I work at home and have a Windows XP system for development (yes, I need one), and a Linux server in the hot-water cupboard. I run VNC on the XP system, since there is not much room to sit in the hot-water cupboard, and with VNC switched to full-screen it's like it is local. A
