On Sat, June 23, 2007 2:26 am, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Kai Ponte wrote:
Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main application, written in .net but requiring many Windows-based controls.
In any case, I've now gotten VMWare to run perfectly in a 1400x1050 resolution with the application running just fine inside. I have no problems with speed or response.
I'd say this is the best of both worlds - a legacy OS like Windows running inside SUSE.
While this surely is impressive,
on a more general note, I doubt that it the best way to run windows.
After all it requires much more in regard to hardware resources than a native windows would need.
Actually, I don't think they've come out with a terahertz processor yet. AFAIK, that is the minimum requirement to make windows stable. :P
You still cannot do anything that windows can do within an emulator.
?? What can't I do? I run office 2007 (with the Excel that no longer limits me to 65500 rows), Visual Studio, Visio and my internal applications. All seem to work without a decrease in speed when compared to my P-IV 3.4 GHz machine sitting right next to the laptop.
AND, it is quite costly to buy a windows license, and additional windows software licenses for any linux computer that is standing around, just to get in the end, what you had before:
A computer that perfectly runs your main windows application(s). ;-))
Well, cost is relative. I reused an XP licence for this purpose. I had bought my older laptop (SUSE-only but now DOA) with XP and I'm using that licence. My current laptop came with Vista, which was promply removed. I'm sure I could load Vista under XP as well, but, why? Of course, there's always piratebay if you really need something cheap. Not that I'd ever encourage anyone to do such a thing. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org