Question part A: I run VirtualBox under Fedora every day to do Windows development. It is probably the easiest way you will find to run either Win on top of Linux or the reverse (I recommend Win on Linux). When I witched over my dev laptop a couple of years ago, I converted it straight into a VM, and put Fedora on the same laptop. Running Windows in that VM on the same hardware, it ran noticeably faster (subjectively, but still). I tend to run 2 or three Windows sessions, full-screen on different workspaces without any noticeable performance hit (and with a suitably confused expression on co-workers' faces when you rotate a desktop cube to switch between different Windows 'machines').
Wine is easy to install for any distro, and runs most common Windows software pretty easily, and co-mingling with the desktop. Between those two, you have an easy way to run just about anything, and there really isn't much of downside. If you really want things to be faster, you can look into kernel-mode VMs, etc, but everything gets less easy. Question part B: Try it out yourself. Run VirtualBox, and run a meego installation inside it, and you can see all of this at once. http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_1.0_Netbook_VirtualBox Also on that page, it looks like Meego uses zypper and yum for packages. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
