On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 01:47:04 +0000 Owen Synge owens.singh@ntlworld.com wrote:
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 .
Sorry just to clarify, "....too hard to install for windows, end users who should be doing experimental work ie not fiddling with linux!"
We where looking for gsi-ssh clients, (funny security hack) and no one knew enough windows and I coded windows in Delphi not C/C++ like putty is and I am thankfully, not in that group, so we have concluded that ubuntu is the solution. If only something could merge jpilot and an exchange like server we could all be happy, I am just loosing faith in evolutions memory leaking, its like wine's ultimately nearly always second rate.
Linux makes its first desktop appearance at work in a month or so. Ubuntu, so the gnome 2.8 user interface makes the race for the first end user linux distribution at work for me.
Will KDE, enlightenment, the icewm, window-maker, or any other GUI ever be "what linux looks like!" to the end user, once people start to learn linux, as they see it ie Gnome and the applications on the start-bar.
Regards
Owen
PS I use icewm