[Tfug] keeping the FOSS spirit alive on a windows box

[Paul Lemmons]

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Subject: Re:[Tfug] keeping the FOSS spirit alive on a windows box
From: "Kyle Scofield" <KScofield at ecgrp.com>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: 12/30/2008 03:24 PM
> http://www.vmware.com/products/server/
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> VMWare server is quite free. I normally run it and then close the vmware server console and use rdesktop or vnc to get to the client. Works great.
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> --Kyle
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org on behalf of Ranjan Grover
> Sent: Tue 12/30/2008 3:19 PM
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] keeping the FOSS spirit alive on a windows box
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>> Can you just run VMware or similar in full screen, on top of Windows?  I
>> started doing that at my work, then eventually started having Windows
>> run in the virtual environment instead, and I've managed to get away
>> with it so far.
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> VMWare ain't free... no deal. Seriously though, try andLinux sometime.
> It absolutely blows my mind. I basically have Linux running in
> user-mode on top of windows and have access to a full KDE menu and can
> open up documents in Kate or Konqueror from within Windows Explorer.
> This is better than VMWare.
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> Ranjan
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Keeping the debate over the freeness of andLinux and/or VMWare to a 
minimum, I would be curious to know which has the smaller footprint? Has 
anybody tried both? I use VMWare Workstation (which is really neither 
free nor OSS) and VirtualBox (which is free and OSS but has lousy USB 
and bridged network support) daily. They both charge a fairly 
significant tax redeemable in CPU and Memory. How light/heavy is andLinux?

-- 
Sometimes I wonder.  Were our faith able to stand upright and look around, would it be looking down at the mustard seed or standing in awe of the height and breadth of it.

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