Bill R., Bill W., Rich, and Stephen --
Thanks for the primer on VMWare-on-Windows-with-Solaris-guest. My
take-away: For people who want to have a box they can switch between
Windows and Solaris a lot on, I think I'd still recommend free VMWare on
(unsupported) Windows XP as an OK option -- with a dose of caution re:
virus issues -- but anybody who wants to use Windows a lot already knows
what they're getting into there anyway.
Me? I'm like Rich, I (and my family) need Windows very infrequently --
less than once a month, easy. So when that does happen, I find it no
problem to just reboot one of my two multi-boot boxes that has Windows
on it (a "BestBuy special" Compaq desktop and my Sun-issue Thinkpad).
Rich wrote:
> You don't know the downside of running a bloated, virus-prone, insecure
> OS all the time?! ;-
Well, regarding virus-prone and insecure, no. But regarding bloated --
definitely yes! ... My wife and kids use Mac OS X. :-)
Eric
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