Wow, I've been very impressed with the discussion on multimedia codecs for The Church. Reminded me of the good old days of the UUG. Thanks, everyone.
I have a question for the group wisdom here. What is the best free/cheap desktop virtualization for occasionally running a windoze desktop under Linux? xen? vmplayer? vmware server? qemu? parallels? virtualbox? Let me define what "best" means for me right now. High performance, easy install and maintenance. Cheap, preferably free (or even Free, with a capital F). This might be giving too much information now, but I basically need something for occasional PAF use, some kiddy CD-ROM games such as Dora the Explorer, Blue's Clues, etc., and any other rare windoze-only application. I've used vmplayer, but it has failed in the easy to maintain area for me. Every kernel update required me to re-run that setup perl script that they have manually. Otherwise it was pretty easy to use. Performance wise, once I got the vmware tools installed, which was also more difficult than it needed to be, it wasn't too bad. Is there anything better these days? Thanks, Bryan -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
