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On Tuesday 10 July 2007 12:28, Tom Potts wrote: > This looks a possible way for getting people to try Linux... > http://www.andlinux.org/index.php > Tom te tom t etom I have set up a few Microsoft users with VMWare Server (which is free as in beer, but not speech) and installed Linux in that - works quite well. Other possibilities - topologilinux - not checked for a while, but that creates a large folder which holds your Linux and you run it the same as any other program under Windows. Bochs or Qemu - again, VMs, but this time both free as in beer and speech. Work well, although a little more complicated than VMWare to set up. I generally go for the VMWare option, because it needs no messing around with. The other VMs tend to need a fair understanding of the command line to get much out of them. Not hard, but more suited to Linux users running other Linux versions or Windows in their Linux environments in my view. Doubtless there are plenty of others, those are a couple off the top of my head which I have used. I think that running Linux in that sort of way (as a VM or whatever) is sometimes better than a dual boot - at least the Linux is available when you wish to use it (and can run alongside the Windows at the same time in the case of VMs). Dual boots, in my experience, tend to be too much hassle for people - they have to reboot to change the OS. That tends to mean the Linux eventually gets forgotten. Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html