On Sunday 17 June 2007 09:39, G T Smith wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Sunday 17 June 2007 01:13, G T Smith wrote: > ... > > However, as another poster pointed out one is leaving the Linux side > fully open to Windows (in)security...
I'm pretty doubtful about that. In all likelihood, the black-hats would have to write exploits specifically for this combination, which they would not do until it came to be in relatively widespread use. > > However, I took a quick look at the NTFS-3G site, and I noticed > > that it said FUSE was required. ... > > That probably is a show stopper.. there probably could be a work > round (e.g. a windows exe that mounts an appropriate image) but this > then gets all rather involved again. Rather depends how many hoops > one wants to jump through to get something to work... > > ... > > > Simple or complex, I don't think it would go beyond being a > > curiosity for me. It would still be a dual-boot solution, and I > > don't need that—I require concurrent access, which is why I use > > VMware. > > Likewise on former, if I need to do stuff in Linux and Windows at the > same time (which is rare), booting into Windows and using Cygwin to > create an X session to another box works for me... Well, Cygwin (<http://cygwin.com/>) is one of the first things I put on every Windows installation I use, and that includes the one running under VMware under Linux. I tend to have had little use for the Cygwin/X (<http://x.cygwin.com/>). > The OP suggested this as an option for new users so that would not > need to repartition their hard drive on installing. I am not too sure > that this idea would be a good initial offering for a newbie ... If the technical issues could be solved, my hunch is that it would prove a better transitional alternative than one of the so-called "Live" CDs / DVDs. Probably even better would be a VMware Server appliance with a Linux image all ready to go. Has anyone built one of these, yet? Either way, most everyone with a system built (or upgraded) within the past few years has enough disk space for one of these solutions. Having enough RAM to efficiently use a concurrent / virtualization-based approach (rather than a dual-boot approach) is another question. 2 GB is enough, but I think that's still a lot for most casual Windows installations. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
