On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:54:19AM +0100, Thomas Baker wrote: > Thank you, David. It is very encouraging to hear that VMWare really > works in such a case. Glad to help.
> I have discussed this with my department's system support, and they > point out it could mean alot of additional work getting my various > hardware configurations (with docking station, without, etc) set up > under Linux. Rather, they suggest running VMWare on Windows and > running Linux and Mutt within that -- the opposite of what you are > doing. Does anyone out there have experience or insights? Fortunately, I have had experience with this as well. When my co-workers saw what I could do with my Linux version of VMware, they promptly bought the NT version (VMware for Windows is currently an NT technology product). If you purchase the Boxed version, it comes with a CD containing "ready to run" dsk files of a couple Linux distros. You don't even need to install anything ;-) Unfortunately, the distros that came with it the last time I saw a box purchase were SuSE and Turbolinux. Not exactly the biggest sellers here in the US, but installing a different distro is still pretty easy. > Also, I am assuming that the Urlview function would work correctly in > the Linux version of Mutt, and that this capability is included in > standard Linux distributions? This works for me in both Mandrake 8.1 and RedHat 7.2 without incident. Another option you may want to persue is using cygwin if you are forced to use Windows as your host OS. There are adequate ports of most apps that work fairly well, if just a little unique in the Windows environment. Mutt is included in the cygwin setup. The setup of an MTA to handle outgoing mail is a little different in Windows, but not too difficult. Cygwin also has a port of XFree86 4.1.0 that works pretty well for Windows, and it's a lot cheaper than VMWare (it's free ;-) http://www.cygwin.com/ -- David Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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