Re: [MLUG] Linux with Windows apps

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Michael Stegeman wrote:

> I've tried dual-booting, VirtualBox (VMware-like FOSS), and Wine. 
> Personally, I did not enjoy dual-booting at all.  It was very much a pain in 
> the neck to shut down Linux just to do one little thing in Windows, as you 
> said. 
> Wine is good for small programs now and then.  I'm not entirely sure if IE 
> will work with Wine or not, but it's definitely worth a try.  Here's a link I 
> found that may provide the solution you need: 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=553143
>
> Now, for VirtualBox... There are a couple things that I do in Windows.  I use 
> PhotoShop, Excel (because OOo spreadsheet won't work right for a couple .xls 
> files I have), and a couple small programs for some of my classes. 
> VirtualBox allows you to set the amount of hard drive, RAM, video memory, 
> etc. you want to provide to the VM, which is really nice.  My laptop has 1 GB 
> of RAM, and i provide 512 MB to my Windows VM in order to run PhotoShop 
> properly.  I'll admit, Linux does lag a small bit when running simultaneously 
> with Windows, but this lagging is hardly noticeable if you don't give such a 
> large chunk of your RAM to the VM.  Here's a link if you want to check it 
> out: http://www.virtualbox.org/
>
> I hope you find what you need!


Thanks for the tips, Mike.  That was very helpful.

I think RAM isn't too pricey these days, so we can probably afford loads 
of memory for the VirtualBox.  I guess I'd add 1 GB to whatever I was 
going to get.  We could use the free educational version of VirtualBox, 
but we'd probably try the GPL version instead to see if that is adequate 
for our needs.

I've been reading that Microsoft is designing their programs to check for 
Wine and then to fail or refuse to do updating if Wine is present. 
That's not fair!  I guess that makes VirtualBox even more appealing.

Mike

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