Re: [MLUG] Linux and Windows

[Joseph Heck <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Byron's really more wiz at this than I, but with 128Mb of RAM it's running
beautifully. I'm working with NT workstation (64Mb dedicated to it) in a
VMWARE session and my host OS is linux. Very nice solution for the places
when I need to utilize Windows because of my co-workers.

-joe

> From: Neil Bradshaw <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
> Organization: University of Missouri--Columbiavi
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> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 23:49:50 +0000
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] Linux and Windows
> 
> What about RAM requirements? I have 128M and was thinking Windows 98
> inside Redhat 6.2.
> -- 
> Neil Bradshaw
> Student/University of Missouri--Columbia
> "Why don't you make like a tree and scram?"
> 
> Jeremy Hinegardner wrote:
>> 
>> VMWare has been out for quite some time.  I've been using it
>> for over a year.  It works wonders.  Byron has done some cool
>> things with VMware (wanna speak up BD?).  I know one day he
>> had running windows2000 and FreeBSD running inside two separate instances
>> of VMWare which was in-turn running on top of Linux.
>> 
>> I don't know of anyone that's done a recursive VMWare installation
>> but I'd like to hear about it :)
>> 
>> -jeremy
>> 
>> On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 11:09:20PM -0500, Neil Bradshaw wrote:
>>> I was reading the latest issue of Linux Magazine and there's an article on
>>> Linux and Windows. I know about Samba and Wine, but was shocked to learn
>>> about VMware's ability to run Windows within Linux inside X in a window. Has
>>> anybody attempted to do this? If I could do this and just load the programs
>>> I need using VMware, I'll go totally Linux.
>>> 
>>> Also, has anybody attempted to use Half-Life in WINE? I've never really
>>> messed with WINE a whole lot, but have heard good things about it. Half-Life
>>> is the only real reason I bother with Windows anymore. I'm addicted to that
>>> damn game.
>>> 
>>> BTW, anyone checked out Maximum Linux? It's the new magazine out from the
>>> folks at Maximum PC. I went ahead and put in for a subscription b/c Maximum
>>> PC is one of my favorite magazines.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Neil Bradshaw
>>> 
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