From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 24 16:25:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3D77106566C for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:25:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrewlylegould@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f162.google.com (mail-fx0-f162.google.com [209.85.220.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 054668FC17 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:25:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrewlylegould@gmail.com) Received: by fxm6 with SMTP id 6so831393fxm.43 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:25:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=eZp81BhaWfiiTALK1qZB7LC08gQnSTTK53oYaO051Qo=; b=r7YDFkc5EL/n/TSePOqcrUk5z6bsW6Sib4GAiifKGQaHZsO6fml/qjzWH8n3GLQzfv kkPWIbScn1kk6elFUqepxv7TBids23ICcJ9ULxeXjwOOSEpMGF/EyE5RhyVRi4zxDX1t aBd9KgTaHD5UZ0Jsc6y6szt+qCjUHibpQ+nZU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Kdgz5TapvIQ29TlQfanRXcbO8W4C+Hy6aSPR9w5Fosx8N0r9JLBgv8b1k6SPO11DV0 +/XvZVMSpQZkHcs+gBgAVJfEK9OemXg/J6+4wNR0PU9dff1TtEqYAvxA1XfLssr40UL/ kJZg26NoE+3lfmkvd815s/x/9ghdgzdh9YfPE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.118.12 with SMTP id t12mr834136faq.88.1240590320363; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:25:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090424151827.GA13967@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20090424151827.GA13967@rebelion.Sisis.de> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:25:20 -0500 Message-ID: From: Andrew Gould To: Matthias Apitz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Win4BSD -- any comments or experiences? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:25:23 -0000 On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in Spanish, I've got a pointer to > this software: > > http://win4bsd.com/wp/win4bsd-free-for-non-commercial-use/ > > Any comments about or test results in compare with Qemu? > Thx > > matthias > -- > Matthias Apitz > Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH > Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany > t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 > e - w http://www.oclc.org/ > http://www.UnixArea.de/ > People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use > FreeBSD. > _______________________________________________ > I played with win4bsd for awhile. It works well for normal desktop usage. Unfortunately, virtual os setups do not handle complex data analysis of extremely large data sets well. I think it has to do with memory usage/management. Otherwise, I liked win4bsd a lot. Andrew