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Offline Sandwich

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Virtual PC or an alternative?
on: August 17, 2004, 05:02:19 pm
I'm looking to experiment with multiple OSes, and I'd like to do so under a virtual machine. Virtual PC (now a MS product - ugh) is the only one I can remember the name of. I'm running Windows 2k on an Athlon XP 3000+ with 1Gb of RAM.

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Reply #1 on: August 17, 2004, 06:15:12 pm
VmWare is good. not too pricey either, I think. $200. depends on what virtual pc costs. vmware works superwell, tho. we ran it at my highschool when learning netware.
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Reply #2 on: August 17, 2004, 06:51:33 pm
[color=66ff00]Knoppix? Not quite dual OS but you can boot it simply by allowing the BIOS to boot the CD at boot time. (wow that's a lot of boots).
It doesn't install anything and runs completely off the CD. Gives you a good idea of what a linux/KDE setup looks like and works like.
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Reply #3 on: August 17, 2004, 06:54:16 pm
Multiple partitions.
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Reply #4 on: August 18, 2004, 04:45:01 am
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[color=66ff00]Knoppix? Not quite dual OS but you can boot it simply by allowing the BIOS to boot the CD at boot time. (wow that's a lot of boots).
It doesn't install anything and runs completely off the CD. Gives you a good idea of what a linux/KDE setup looks like and works like.
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Have it already, but that's not what I'm looking for. Thanks. ;)

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Multiple partitions.


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VmWare is good. not too pricey either, I think. $200. depends on what virtual pc costs. vmware works superwell, tho. we ran it at my highschool when learning netware.


Ah! That's what I was trying to think of.... I think. :p
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #5 on: August 20, 2004, 02:30:05 am
Before you buy VmWare or VirtualPC try Bochs. It's free/open so it'll save you some money if it works. I've heard it's good, but I've only used VmWare myself.

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Reply #6 on: August 20, 2004, 08:23:16 am
I used to use VMWare myself, though WINE can be quite useful if it suits your purposes. VMWare is the one I'd recommend, though.
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