On 5/10/05, Dan Kaspi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > >Frankly, I prefer the "Two step approach"- > > Well ,after reading the (quite many) responses and talking to him this seems > to be what he is convinced to do. (at least at work, where he cannot afford > himself spending time trying to solve technical problems in linux where an > immediate solution is needed) .
Great to hear that. > > Since using application is presumably the easier part of moving to linux, > I also try to to convince him to try to install Colinux under windows, so > that he can play a bit with the command line,starting services, a little > shell,installing packages (apt-get,yum,...) etc. (I do not know if this will > enable him to > test XWinsows ; When I tried to install colinux under windows > about a year ago, I found out that using the XWindows under colinux (there > were some methods > to do that in that time) was not so good in terms of performance under my > 2.4 Celeron processor; > However,it could be that thing had changed since then). You better snoop around about the status of coLinux and what are the chances that it'll work for him. If the chances are low then maybe it's better not to expose him to it since it may leave a bad impression. As for X11 (IF coLinux works) - you should be able to install an X server on Windows and an XDMCP service on Linux so he will actually login "remotely" from a display running on Windows into an X session running on coLinux. That way you get all the X11 clients without having to run an entire display simulation under coLinux. I haven't tried this but this is what the X11 designers had in mind when they did it. Cheers, --Amos ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
