[TriLUG] Win4Lin(was linuux mouse kvm problems)

[al johson]

There's another way to "skin the Windows animal". Go get yourself a drawer
cabinet which mounts in any 5" bay and will allow you to insert and remove
hard drives which are mounted in removable drawers (which can contain any OS
you wish--Linux or Windows or both). This cost should around $75.00 (the
last I checked--the ones you should prefer have vents on them with one or
two fans which blow on your hard drive while in use--this cools the hard
drive and makes it last longer to boot!!) .

Then search for an inexpensive hard drive (there's always several large ones
which go on sale at Best Buy, etc. from time to time). You should be able to
buy a good size one for about $60.00. Now you can use Linux and Windows
without endangering either OS (as opposed to dual-booting which can prevent
a bad Windows virus or hard drive crash from destroying your Linux
partition). Then whenever you need to run a Windows program (which should be
done less and less the more Linux programs appear!) you simply shut down
either system, cut off the power, remove the hard drive by hand (these
drawers usually have locks on them to keep them from falling out or from
being stolen) and switch OS's. When my Windows drive recently crashed
unexpectedly,  I  simply put in my Linux drive and went on with my work.

You probably already have a Windows OS on a drive already which means that
you won't have to purchase any software!!!  So if you're concerned about
expenses (and who isn't esp. in this economy), this route has a lot going
for it.
Bon Appetit---Al Johnson.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Vestal" <rvestal at trilug.org>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Win4Lin(was linuux mouse kvm problems)


> Win4Lin is $69.00 (LUG price).
> VMWare is $299.00
>
> The main difference is Win4Lin runs as a Linux process, albeit a HUGE
> process, while VMWare takes a certain amount of your system resources
> (i.e. X amount of your RAM is only available to your VMWare session).
>
> Also Win4Lin, you can set how big the C: drive is and it will "grow" to
> the max, but will not use the full amount unless you fill up Windows.
> VMWare takes the amount of HDD you specify as one file.
>
> They both have their place. I use Win4Lin for some of our Windows only
> network functions, and I use VMWare for development of my programs.
>
> Just stuff to think about.
>
> Lisa C. Boyd wrote:
>
> > Michael Thompson wrote:
> >
> >> I have run Photoshop and Dreamweaver/Fireworks/Flash MX with Vmware
with
> >> no apparent problems, but my trial period is over and Vmware is just a
> >> little too pricey for my budget right now... but it was *very* nice to
> >> be able to run my Windoze apps on my Linux desktop. I have yet to get
> >> the Win4Lin demo to work with RH8.0...
> >
> >
> > That's good to know! I haven't looked at Vmware yet but if it's too
> > pricey for you then it's probably way too pricey for me - especially
> > since I'm lucky enough to have two computers here. Although I guess if
> > it's cheaper than what I could get for one of my computers...the
> > wheels start turning :)
> >
> > Thanks for the input on the Mac/Adobe/Macromedia stuff too. I have had
> > some troubles with Adobe programs on my Windows machine but I think it
> > was more of I was trying to do too much at one time for my computer :)
> >
> > Then there's the dream of video editing ... but alas, have other
> > things I need to learn first :)
> >
> > Lisa B.
> >
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