Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

[Russell]

Rohan Nicholls wrote:

* Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030125 00:17]:

on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:54:46AM +1100, Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

Rohan Nicholls wrote:

I have to say that I took over my windows partition, and now run
win2k in an emulator for the times I need to for work, and it runs as
fast, with a few trivial exceptions, in the emulator as it did on its
own, and for the rest of my life I get to run on a fast responsive
and endlessly configurable system.

I've got win2k. What is this emulator?

I suspect it's VMWare:  http://www.vmware.com/

You are right there, and there is plex86, but I have not explored that
fully yet, but intend to.

Personal copy will set you back ~$100US or so.

Codeweaver's Crossover Office (also a proprietary product) is another
option.

This I have not tried, the company I work for, has the Office and Win2k
licenses so I have just used VMware and installed them.  It is a very
sweet system, and allows me to deal with testing, and certain work
related things where I need to work in a windows environment.

The good part is it makes me appreciate linux even more, and I don't
have to do any rebooting to use it.:)

Good luck with trying it out, and enjoy having windows when you need it
without having to leave linux.

Thanks, it sounds promising. If i install win2k as the guest OS on vmware
which is in turn installed on linux, is there a way to copy the whole win2k
installation into vmware, or do i need to re-install everything again?


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