Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 10:42:48 -0000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Andrew C. Ohnstad" <andy@andysaudio.com> Cc: <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: since it's a newbies list, here goes.... Message-ID: <018601bf01c2$8e2f2200$827e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909171719380.22834-100000@rearstage.andysaudio.com>
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OK thats interesting I'm not a fan of linux but VMware will no doubt run in FreeBSD so sounds like it might be worth a closer look ... thanks for the comments ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew C. Ohnstad <andy@andysaudio.com> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: Joe Pepin <joe_pepin@ins.com>; <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 9:29 PM Subject: Re: since it's a newbies list, here goes.... > On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Doug Young wrote: > > > well, the authors invariably state that it virtually doubles the load on the > > machine, which at least > > sounds logical since you are effectively running two operating systems at > > once. If one doesn't > > mind stuff taking forever to happen then its not a problem .... however I > > don't know that emulators > > are necessarily the solution for constant use ...... occasional > > experimenting / development work > > is another issue entirely of course > > Actually, VMWare works very well with little or no degregation... In fact > this message comes from Vmware running Linux over NT... > > I use this setup every day at work. There are a couple custom > applications that I need for work that only exist on Windoze. But i spend > 90 % of my time in a fullscreen VMWare/Linux session. > > :) > > =-=Andrew > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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