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On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:46:20 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales |
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> I agree with John. It is better to have a robust system (Gentoo) and |
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> run the bad one (Windows) on user space (via VMWare) so it can't do |
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> much damage. |
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That's how I do it and it works well. I very rarely use VMWare for |
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Windows, mainly for testing on different Linux distros. It runs virtually |
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as fast as native hardware, apart from a slight reduction in disk speed |
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from the virtual disks. |
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VMWare 5 is very nice, and runs much better on amd64 than the 4.x series. |
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> As for comments on VMWare, it isn't free software and you need a |
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> licence key. Some purists don't like the fact that it isn't free. |
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That's hardly an issue if he's going to run Windows with it :-O |
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Neil Bothwick |
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A friend of mine sent me a postcard with a satellite photo of the |
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entire planet on it, and on the back he wrote, "Wish you were here." |
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