Fred James wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: >> Is it correct to say a "live instance" is: >> a. an emulation? >> b. a virtual machine/other? >> >> > I don't like to miss the opportunity to muddy the waters, so here goes ... > (1) "live distro" ... live in this case (as in Linux) usually means > a complete and self-booting Linux OS and applications, all on one CD (or > DVD, or USB memory stick, for that matter) > Just boot and run as is without installing, although many > of these do offer an install option. > (2) "live instance" ... an instance may be an instantiation, or copy > of (fill in the blank), and a live instance is one of those that is > currently live(???) > (3) "emulation" ... in the computer world, emulation is usually a > software layer that pretends to be something else ... example: a layer > over the underlaying OS that pretends to be a different OS > (4) "virtual machine" ... VMWare is a good example here ... say your > OS is Linux ABC (the host OS), then you install VMWare to run on top of > that. Then in VMWare you install one or more "guest" OS's ... these > guest OS's are virtual machines in that none of them talk to the base > machine, and any or all of them can crash without disturbing the base > machine or "host" OS > (5) "other" ... oh, now that is a long list > ... is any of that any help at all? > Regards > Fred James >
Actually, YES ;) It eliminated potential non-productive trains of questions. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
