Re: [LUG] Re: What is/was your work desktop? was Re: [LUG} SIMS

[Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kelly Jones wrote:

> Yes Fedora Core is excellent, Version 3 adds Gnome 2.8, Firefox 1.0 
> and Evolution 2.02 apart from that it's much the same as FC2.  VMWare 
> is excellent and i can't recommend it highly enough, you can go full 
> screen with an OS and it feels and looks exactly if it was running 
> directly on the hardware.  I had a loft full of servers running 
> various OS's for testing and educational purposes, i now have 
> everything (except firewall) running on one cube system which is tiny, 
> very powerful and didn't cost much to put together (less than i got 
> for all the old server kit i had).  Best of all you can install a test 
> system in literally minutes and VMware has a snapshot system which is 
> similar to Windows XP system restore allowing you to trash an OS then 
> restore it at the touch of a button.  The have also sorted out USB 
> support in VMware which was something that always stopped me from 
> doing this in earlier versions.

Sounds good, I have played with earlier versions of VMWare, I was 
reading up a bit about it at work, sounds like it will run on 64-Bit 
Linux which is good, I could use a 64-bit OS and still run my old 
stubborn Windows app's (DVD Shrink, SonicStage for MiniDisc etc) when I 
need to.

I'll start downloading it tonight, finally got my broadband and I need 
something to test the faster speed. :-)

Rob



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