On Thu, 17 May 2001, Rose wrote:
> I am interested in vmware and would love to hear from others who have
> used this. I just emailed them in hopes of getting an academic discount.
>
> On the other hand Im all for ending the clutter of two boxes on my desk
> and giving one to someone who needs one and using Wine for the major
> apps I run like Photoshop 6 and Illustrator. That is if they will work
> under wine. I need to investigate that further.
>
> O/T: My sons Dad called me today all happy, it appears as though page
> 226 of O'Reillys Perl for Sys Admin says something about his open
> source baby freetds.org, awww!
I am using VMware at home, and I must agree that the best feature
is not crashing the whole box, just the window. I also am very
appreciative of the fact that if you corrupt the Windows system
by some installation or configuration, you can regress. In fact,
I keep a special "clean" work installation of Win98 and all my
work-related applications, so if I need to regress, it takes about
2 minutes.
I personally find that Win98 is far less likely to crash under
VMware than on an actual box. My friend theorizes that it is
because Win98 is being presented with an "ideal" machine setup.
The only real "problem" I encountered recently was when my
cursor response started getting slower and slower. Turns out
that the xserver had "been up too long" and needed to be
restarted. That said, I haven't rebooted my Linux box in
120 days, and my VMware session in over 2 weeks.
My only wish for VMware is joystick support. I hear that it
is on the "to-do" list.
I believe that the "hobbyist" rate is no longer around, but they
say they have an educational discount. Don't know what that is.
Dawn-Marie
"How much change is needed before something is no
longer the same?"
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