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SubjectRe: on to StarOffice problem, and general WinXX compatibility.
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 08:10:42PM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> Someone recently posted privately to me wondering what other solutions to
> the StarOffice problem were available, and more specifically, how to
> maintain compatibility with Microsoft Office.
...
> Why not just USE those applications in Linux to start with? I'm very
> serious here. If you have the apps, and need compatibility with them -
> either for the office, or for personal use, for the most part it is
> possible to run most Microsoft Windows 3.1/95/98/NT/2000 applications
> flawlessly in Linux.

> http://www.vmware.com

> VMware is a "virtual machine" or in laymens speak - a program th..
> You can install virtually any popular operating system, including Linux
> itself, any Windows varient, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc...
> ..with it at all. It is definitely "production quality".
> VMware also requires some decent hardware. The minimum system..

You are absolutely correct in all cases. I am using VMWare for some tasks
that I need to perform certain tasks, and it is quite amusing to have
Windows bluescreen in a window and just click "reboot" and it does (one of
the tasks I need to perform is bug testing certain software, so VMware
comes in handy.)

The trouble I see for VMWare in some environments (where users don't CARE
what they use, as long as it RUNS) is that for using VMware you will have
to boot up TWO systems concurrently (that is a time delay), and the
performance, while being good on my 350MHz K6-2, is - at least in my
experience - not acceptable if you run anything under 266MHz. It was
certainly not acceptable on the Pentium 233 pool of machines I was
upgrading to Linux lately (although they had ample RAM).

What I want in VMware is a virtual "suspend to disk" feature, that just
sets the virtual CPU to 0MHz and writes the memory contents in a disk file.
That way, you do not need to boot your virtual OS every time, and it saves
a lot of time.

Yeah, I'll shut up now.


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_ciao, Jens_______________________________ http://www.pinguin.conetix.de

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