This is a very useful combo. If you've got a mission critical Windows app that you don't feel like porting right this moment, if you need to learn OSX to support your customers, if you want to give top billing to software that doesn't restrict your use, do this. The kicker would be to see this all under a free vm.
I use vista with 512 and i doesn't run like crap, that's complete bulls**t, it runs fine with Aero on, in fact it's slightly more responsive (the ui), i guess it's because of the hardware acceleration.The task manager says that it uses 50% of the RAM though, firefox runs exactly as in my XP installation and the new explorer runs much better.
VMware is a ridiculous attempt at emulating operating system software. If you're running a GNU/Linux based operating system, use GNU/Linux software, preferably open source. If you are using OSX, operating using software designed for OSX. If you are foolish enough to believe anything good will come out of using Windows Vista, use software designed for Windows Vista. This will solve MANY compatibility issues, save a lot of headaches, and ease these displeased fan boys. Your only hurting yourself when you try to emulate poor renditions of of software, where they don't belong.
@ron1n541: you seem to be arguing that cross-platform software is somehow inherently a bad thing. Well, I say arguing, more like stating unilaterally -- would you care to support your position with a little logic, evidence, or facts?
Do people running linux actually do anything useful besides making demo videos and playing with their new found gfx effects that other platforms have had for years in a less gaudy and more productive form?This is all very nice and all. I'm sure the rotating box is fun for the first week or so but then what? Shouldn't the linux community stop their bickering, kick RMS out of the club and get down to business of creating a viable desktop platform? How about stowing the hippy/commie free beer or GNU Freedom crap and start giving people real freedom and allowing companies to port software to linux without fear of viral licenses and dependency hell?RMS should grow up and realize that people who are no longer in academia have to be pragmatists rather than idealists and that business needs to have a profit motive in order to create things.Seriously folks, if you guys cannot get RMS to face facts, I would suggest buying him a one way ticket to Cuba and tell him to stay there.
I think the idea of running multiple OS is great while migrating to a new working platform. There will be certain old customers and projects you will have to open in old versions of software and export data to get them to work on the new platform. Some commercial software you have bought only works on the old OS and so on, multibooting is really time consuming when doing exports and imports, going back and forth between two apps on two different OSs. Also another thing that benefits greatly from virtualization is the testing process for webdevelopers, speed is not a crucial thing when you want to open a (for example) webpage and see how it renders on different platforms and browsers.. you just want to see how it looks.One thing is to play and test, another is to actually earn a living and work with computers across different platforms. Don't forget that.
thorlordMay 20, 2007
[edit]double post.
dsterryMay 20, 2007
This is a very useful combo. If you've got a mission critical Windows app that you don't feel like porting right this moment, if you need to learn OSX to support your customers, if you want to give top billing to software that doesn't restrict your use, do this. The kicker would be to see this all under a free vm.
puesiMay 21, 2007
I use vista with 512 and i doesn't run like crap, that's complete bulls**t, it runs fine with Aero on, in fact it's slightly more responsive (the ui), i guess it's because of the hardware acceleration.The task manager says that it uses 50% of the RAM though, firefox runs exactly as in my XP installation and the new explorer runs much better.
ron1n541May 21, 2007
VMware is a ridiculous attempt at emulating operating system software. If you're running a GNU/Linux based operating system, use GNU/Linux software, preferably open source. If you are using OSX, operating using software designed for OSX. If you are foolish enough to believe anything good will come out of using Windows Vista, use software designed for Windows Vista. This will solve MANY compatibility issues, save a lot of headaches, and ease these displeased fan boys. Your only hurting yourself when you try to emulate poor renditions of of software, where they don't belong.
Closed AccountMay 21, 2007
1GB of RAM? Hard to believe.
semwMay 22, 2007
@ron1n541: you seem to be arguing that cross-platform software is somehow inherently a bad thing. Well, I say arguing, more like stating unilaterally -- would you care to support your position with a little logic, evidence, or facts?
aristotle0dudeMay 22, 2007
Do people running linux actually do anything useful besides making demo videos and playing with their new found gfx effects that other platforms have had for years in a less gaudy and more productive form?This is all very nice and all. I'm sure the rotating box is fun for the first week or so but then what? Shouldn't the linux community stop their bickering, kick RMS out of the club and get down to business of creating a viable desktop platform? How about stowing the hippy/commie free beer or GNU Freedom crap and start giving people real freedom and allowing companies to port software to linux without fear of viral licenses and dependency hell?RMS should grow up and realize that people who are no longer in academia have to be pragmatists rather than idealists and that business needs to have a profit motive in order to create things.Seriously folks, if you guys cannot get RMS to face facts, I would suggest buying him a one way ticket to Cuba and tell him to stay there.
jessejMay 22, 2007Submitter
I think the idea of running multiple OS is great while migrating to a new working platform. There will be certain old customers and projects you will have to open in old versions of software and export data to get them to work on the new platform. Some commercial software you have bought only works on the old OS and so on, multibooting is really time consuming when doing exports and imports, going back and forth between two apps on two different OSs. Also another thing that benefits greatly from virtualization is the testing process for webdevelopers, speed is not a crucial thing when you want to open a (for example) webpage and see how it renders on different platforms and browsers.. you just want to see how it looks.One thing is to play and test, another is to actually earn a living and work with computers across different platforms. Don't forget that.