Hi, > Out of curiosity, did this past week's meeting cover VM-Ware, or will I > be lucky enough to get a chance to make it to another meeting in which > it will be covered? I don't know anything about wine but concerning VMWare the product is going to be sold to many of us at a higher price than what was previously offered...maybe students will still get the discount. I've used VMWare on a development and testing machine where I needed to preserve a pristine environment...if install of application being tested fails, don't write the session to disk. It's really pretty great for this type of use. It allowed me to run several linux variants and bsd. My experinece is that VMWare definitely performs well on a PII 450 with 128 ram while compiling mysql in the virtual machine but on a similar machine with a celeron 450 it was miserably slow. This could well have been my own misguided configuration. Ultimately, concerning performance, I think VMWare performs like a charm with the right hardware. Never used wine. Ron > In using Windows apps that have not yet been ported over to Linux, would > I be better off running Wine or VM-Ware, or a combination of the two? > I'm not very familiar with either one, but in looking at Wine's > database, some of the programs that I have aren't supported under it. I > do have the Wine admin handbook, but have yet to read it. > > I like the idea of running VM-Ware because, if I understand this > correctly, it's a Windows install on top of Linux. Yet, on the other > hand, I've also heard of a lot of instability with VM-Ware. > > Could anyone share some insight on some of the differences between the > two, and make a recommendation of what might best be suited to my > needs? Some of the apps that I'm running use a lot of Active-X. Or is > it Direct-X? So hard to remember which of the two it is... To many X's > and E's in today's terminology. > > Thanks, > > Shawn > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > >