On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Medi Montaseri wrote:
> Stuart Frew wrote:
>
> > Ideally you would have linux( or what ever) on every developers
> > machine but sometimes you don't get the choice.
>
> Oh "the choice" is easy....just come in on a weekend and install
> linux on your box. Don't tell IT. That's all.
I think the "don't get a choice" is more to do with that you require
access to some application that requires MS windows to run. This is
typically Exchange, Word, and most importantly iexplore for testing
the website you are developing. There are solutions to this:
a) Terminal Server. Get one Windows box running terminal server (the
server version of w2k ships with it by default iirc) and install
rdesktop[1] on your desktop Linux machines. This means you
can all remotely open up a window to a Windows desktop on your linux
box.
It's reasonably fast but you will be limited to 256 colours and
animations will be slow.
b) VMWare (and similar) that allows you to run an emulated Windows
computer on your real computer.
I tried the trial version of this but I found it was taking up too
much resources on my desktop. OTOH, I never had any problem with it
and it worked flawlessly, and my desktop machine is quite slow by
modern standards.
c) VMWare the other way round - run it on Windows and have emulated
linux boxen. The advantage of this is that you'll be able to quickly
switch between a range of development environments, roll back changes
etc. etc. I've never personally tried this solution...
d) WINE on Linux. I've not had much success with this, but if it's a
particular application you might have success.
[a] requires purchase of one w2k server licence and one computer
(though you might have one that has some spare processing time) and will
free up the Windows licences for the desktop machine. [b] and [c] require
one VMWare per machine. IIRC that's quite expensive. [d] is the cheapest
option, and you might even be able to dump your existing windows licence.
Regards.
Mark.
[1] http://www.rdesktop.org/
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