On Sunday 08 October 2006 11:54, Andrew Errington wrote: > 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
Or simply run X on windows via cygwin or one of the other offshoots.
