Re: [digitalradio] Re: Will Windows Vista bring a windfall?

2006-12-12 Thread Simon Brown
Myself I run the excellent VMware software to host many O/S. There is a free VMware server which you can use to test various LINUX variants, this is what I do. I currently have a VISTA rc2 system as there are new soundcard API's which I must support. Performance is not bad as long as you

[digitalradio] Re: Will Windows Vista bring a windfall?

2006-12-12 Thread Dave Bernstein
I'm sure its fine for IT stuff, but do you find the fidelity of execution under VMware to be acceptable when testing multi-threaded real-time systems, Simon? 73, Dave, AA6YQ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Simon Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Myself I run the excellent

[digitalradio] Re: Will Windows Vista bring a windfall?

2006-12-12 Thread Dave Bernstein
From a throughput perspective, I'm sure DBMS and app servers run fine. From a testing perspective, however, I'm not sure that running digital mode software in a virtualized environment would yield the same behavior as running it in the native environment that most users will employ. I have

[digitalradio] Re: Will Windows Vista bring a windfall?

2006-12-11 Thread Joel Kolstad
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, jhaynesatalumni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since people are being told they have to upgrade to new faster computers to run Windows Vista, I wonder if that means there will be a lot of somewhat less capable machines available used or free that will run Linux

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Will Windows Vista bring a windfall?

2006-12-11 Thread Danny Douglas
Message - From: Joel Kolstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 11:52 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: Will Windows Vista bring a windfall? --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, jhaynesatalumni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since people are being