On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:40:51AM -0600, Brian E Boothe wrote:
> i've found thats its best to leave Linux as Linux and run a separate PC
> for Windows and share your files thru a AD " active Directory or
> "Fileshare" ,, why install linux just to run windows? thats kinda crazy
> to me, i don't even bother with the whole
> "wine" ordeal, free yourself,
I don't know much about wine. (I don't drink, snicker snicker.)
Seriously, I have only used it a few times, without success, but I
didn't try very hard.
I do find VirtualBox useful. It saves me the trouble of booting two
computers, and should also be more ecologically sound, as it uses less
power than a separate machine.
HOWEVER--and this is a big however--I'm not running resource intensive
apps in Windows. I need Windows primarily for the Checkpoint VPN client
to access work from home. While using the client, I basically check our
Citrix servers (done with a web browser) and Unix machines (done with
putty, the ssh terminal client for Windows.)
If I were using some Adobe products, Visual Basic, or anything else that
used more than a small amount of resources, I suspect I'd be right there
with Brian, shouting, NO, use a separate machine.
--
Scott Robbins
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