On Thursday 19 April 2007, Clayton wrote: > We didn't see the point in running a Linux host with a VMWare client > only to run Windows pretty much 100% of the time on top of all that. > The end user would be right where they started, running Windows full > screen,
Well if that's all he does, then yes, why bother with Linux? The engineer types I deal with all run Dual Screens, (usually dual 20 inch flat panels), with an autocad session running full screen on on, and email, calculators, OOO, etc on the other flat panel. They are also watching streaming data from various remote instruments and stuff on the second screen. However, they can expand that Vmware window (running autocad) to span both monitors if they need/want to show off. And their vmware sessions are all snap-shotted so that they can roll back if something goes wrong. On an a recent hardware upgrade, only the Linux user was up and running instantly. The others all had to re-install Autocad, re-configure, fiddle, and try to remember settings. The linux user simply copied his vmware directory from his old machine and was up and running instantly. KDE has some very good dual-screen support, (better than windows in many respects) especially regards driving both the monitors at full resolution. XP would not do that, it choked if there were two different size displays and the larger display was number 2 for some reason. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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