Am 15.11.2007, 19:55 Uhr, schrieb Jim Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
That dissatisfaction is among the small subset of consumers who read Slashdot or this list or who write for and read those magazines. For them Vista is a pain.
Just my $.02 worth... even me for Vista is not a pain. I use it in my work to run VMware workstation so I can write and test the tools needed to manage my clusters. I use putty to connect to them, deploy my tools and use them. The $200 PC would surely be underpowered to run something like VMware Workstation but it does mean that genuine real work can happen on that platform... just not running 3 or 4 VM's at once like I do.
Running a single VM for that kind of work would be ok, I think. At my old lab we had about a dozen boxes whose purpose was to prepare jobs for cluster submission. No compilation was required, it was all defining parameters and visualization.
There is definitely room for these lower power machines in the universe. Even if they do run Vista.
-geoff -- ------------------------------- Geoff Galitz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blankenheim, Deutschland _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
