Re: Linux/FreeBSD

["Raphael S. Mudge" <rsmudge@xxxxxxx>]

Have you tried out wine recently?  I downloaded a recent version and was
quite impressed at how well it was running some windows apps.

Just a thought :)

-- Raffi

On 13 Nov 2002, Adam Shirey wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 22:41, Michael J. Agostini wrote:
> >    2) On a completely unrelated topic, has anyone ever used VMWare?
> >       I'm thinking about getting it to run Windows 2000 inside Linux,
> >       so I won't have to mess with dual-boot any longer.
> 
> I've run VMWare before - the Linux version running Windows. It's not too
> bad, actually. There is a bit of overhead, as you can imagine, so I
> wouldn't expect to run anything too intense, but it is very possible to
> run a copy of W2000 constantly inside Linux without any real issues.
> (Quite handy for running those Windows-only apps.) I have not used any
> of the more recent versions of VMWare, so I can't say how it's improved.
> 
>  
> >    3) Finally, I looked for mailing list archives, but www.mtulug.org
> >       link from http://www.cs.mtu.edu/new/html/student-orgs.html
> >       doesn't seem to work.  Is this website permanently down?
> 
> It's down for now, but should be up within a few days, I'd guess. Maybe
> a week.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> -Adam
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