From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Sep 17 17:49:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E04D214F55 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:49:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA10263; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:13:00 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle.apana.org.au(203.3.126.130), claiming to be "oracle" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdH10261; Sat Sep 18 11:12:57 1999 Message-ID: <018601bf01c2$8e2f2200$827e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Andrew C. Ohnstad" Cc: References: Subject: Re: since it's a newbies list, here goes.... Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 10:42:48 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To: Doug Young Cc: Joe Pepin ; 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