[conspire] (forw) Re: InstallFest on Apr. 13th

[Tony Godshall]

[doh, resend with reply all]

>> P.S. - I would like to configure a dual-boot set up, as I need THAT other
>> operating system from time-to-time (sorry!).
>
> People keep asking for dual-boot, ...
>
> Advantage over dual-booting:  You can use both OSes concurrently,
> instead of continually needing to shut down and reboot to use the other
> OS.

and also- the entire windows hard drive is just a file.  so you can
back it up with tar or cp.  and when it gets infected, you can restore
it with tar or cp.

> Disadvantage relative to dual-booting:  There is some RAM and CPU
> overhead.

in my tests, windows xp and vista ran faster under debian than they
did on bare hardware.  windows utilized memory poorly and cached
poorly.  it's possible these defects have been fixed.  but microsoft
seems to have other priorities (marketing featuritis)



On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Paul Zander (paulz at ieee.org):
>
>> I had been planning to come Saturday, mostly because I haven't been in
>> too long.
>
> Wel'd love to see you -- and the spring garden's all planted for you to
> make polite noises of encouragement about.  ;->
>
>> Now I want to hear more info VM and other alternatives to dual boot.
>> I have managed with dual boot, mostly because I need a specific
>> application, like tax program, that is not available in Linux
>> compatible mode. Also a lot of applications are available for multiple
>> OS's, for example, gimp, gnucash, xfoil.
>
> Yeah, that actually would be good material for a short lecture if I can
> put one together in the next couple of days -- maybe with a handout
> sheet or three.
>
> My _existing_ crufty write-up starts fifteen paragraphs into
> http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/?page=kicking#partition -- which is one
> reason why I need to throw it out and rewrite it afresh.  And said
> existing text is vague and imcomplete, too.
>
> What it really comes down to is:  Hey, what problem are you really
> trying to solve?  Just need to preserve the ability to run a couple of
> Windows apps while adopting Linux?  Then, maybe dual-boot is the suckest
> possible way.  Alternatives include:
>
> 1.  Various ways to run Win32 apps right on Linux.  WINE, CrossOver,
> GameTree Linux (formerly Cedega, Formerly WineX).
>
> 2.  Various VM (virtual machine) frameworks:  VirtualBox, VMware
> Workstation, VMware ESX, VMware Fusion, VMware Player, Hyper-V,
> Parallels Workstation, Virtuozzo, others.
>
> (VirtualBox is dead simple, and all of it is, at least, free of charge
> for personal use.  All of its code except some optional extensions
> is open source under GPLv2 and CDDL.)
>
> 3.  Remote app schemes:  VNC, RDP (rdesktop client), X11 across the
> network, FreeNX, NoMachine NX Server / NX Client, others.
>
> I.e., unless you need everything to work on a single mobile machine
> (notebook/laptop), then maybe you should leave your MS-Windows machine
> alone except to install UltraVNC (untested by this reporter) on it,
> permitting you to have such ready access to run Windows apps remotely
> (usinga Linux VNC client) that you end up removing the monitor from your
> Windows box as superfluous.
>
> It's a pity that Microsoft carefully does not offer Remote Desktop
> Services (formerly Terminal Services) separately from Windows Server
> 2008, because otherwise people would use that very widely to solve the
> same problem, i.e., you could use /usr/bin/rdesktop the way you can a
> VNC client to run apps off any networked host running a VNC server.
>
> As it is, /usr/bin/rdesktop is extremely useful to Linux users in
> corporations running Windows Server.
>
>
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