On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 04:12, Greg Meyer wrote: > In my mind, the most cost effective sure thing is Win4Lin, assuming one does > not have to run one of the NT flavors of Windows. I believe that VMWare is > really aimed at the developer market so that applications can be easily > tested for compatibility on different Operating Systems.
I'd tend to say that for HOME users, Win4Lin might be an option worth exploring - for me, however, especially being in the support/consulting trade, I NEED to run VMWare as I support all OS's - so in working with particular issues, or testing particular situations, it's better for me to be able to actually run the REAL OS in a virtual machine - so cost is made up by usage. Rather nice to be able to run heaps of different OS's (or versions thereof) - without rebooting. Running XP Pro in a 1280x1024 window whilst running X in a 1600x1200 mode is really cool when people are sitting around watching (grin). -- Fri Mar 14 07:50:01 EST 2003 07:50:01 up 1 day, 17:13, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.21, 0.19 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** They're giving bank robbing a bad name. -- John Dillinger, on Bonnie and Clyde
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