On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 23:41:10 -0000 "Simon Marden" simon.marden@squeezeyourmind.co.uk wrote:
Thanks for all your suggestions everyone.
I've played with VMware, and agree it is a brilliant piece of kit. Has anyone here looked at coLinux? http://www.colinux.org/ I just got it the other day, but haven't got it working yet.
We set "Little David" on that one, came back as, after asking him whats its like he said, well its user mode linux on windows, may ask more later. He was not a bit excited. Doesnt rearlise the posiblities. But then he never spoke at length to VMS heads, but I know it works and the networking but the effort was deamed too hard to install .
I look forward to a good bunch of GUI VM managers projects if they expose a wel documented simple layered interface. Typical linux, wait for a word processor better than wp6 for ages then loads come all at the same time. Even XML DTD managed GUI tools are getting good now!
Played with dual-booting but I just tend to stay on my current fave rather than keep switching.
To be honest I just need to get around to making the commitment to switch to a linux desktop.
Si.
I do look forward to the hypervisors coming from IBM and Xen stabalising a bit more. Maybe when its normal to run linux under Xen and cosidered insecure to do anything else, Microsoft will release thier ports of Windows. Till then I shall just wait, but if I bought VMware would I want it running on windows at work?
Cross over office will suit busness needs and just finding applications in debian giving them a go moving on to the next one is a bit of a pain but linux is now a practical desktop enviroment provided you dont have to pay to much for the expertease.
Unfortunately for a sole trader I would still recomend MSwindows as trading is hard work and just remember before they next reinstall windows that they can be up and running quicker with Ubuntu. But change is more frequent in Linux and the reasent leap into the commersial world of Linux (the evidence is clear from the tools being made and sold) meens that the market is dynamic and key market leaders are imerging such as gnome, but its by no means clear how dynamic "switchers" to linux will be driven by time saving and simplisity of instalation and but only being good enough, less hastle though but a bit retrograde on the useability frount. Time will tell,
I give it three years and thier will be questions in palement on whu does Windows costs assosiated with the NHS I recon.
Regards
Owen
Wow cant get over what you said adam!