- Original Message -
From: Alex Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 10:41 AM
Subject: [newbie] Re: XwinPro
...To who ever it was that posted the thing about Xwin pro
don't know if I've misunderstood you, but this and other sinilar software
is to connect a windows pc to a REMOTE unix system
as far as I know you can't connect your windows system to your own linux
system if it's all on the same disk.you can't have 2 OS's running at
the same time on the same disk ...I don't think. (someone 'll prolly prove
me wrong!)
Not going to harp on about this as it wasn't the point of the original post,
but you can run two OS's at the same time - checkout http://www.vmware.com
Currently allows you to run another OS from Linux (not just Win95/98/NT, but
also OS/2, DOS, etc.), and shortly to be released, a version that will allow
another OS from within NT.
Need a pretty beefy spec PC tho (and yes i believe it only runs on PC's, not
Sparcs etc.)! Oh yeah, and the two OS's can act like they think they are two
seperate PCs on your own private little LAN if you wish !!
...oh and another thing, I wouldn't advise connecting a windows machine
in a place where there are lots of other windows machines,to
a unix server and running a cool window manager like enlightenment.
...as you'll be hounded by people going "ooo, what's that, that looks
cool" "can you show me how to do that.."
I thought that was the whole idea ;-) The more people see cool desktop
environments like enlightenment (and yes i'm, afraid i do prefer it over
KDE, always have done - just couldn't be bothered with configuring it since
i tried DR0.9), the more people are likely to show an interest in Linux.
Okay, there's plenty more to a decent OS than a cool working environment (or
playing), but that's a major start - anyhows Linux has plenty more anyway !!
Martin.
PS: I'm in no way connected with vmware, i just think its pretty cool.
