I knew I'd know.... I originally cheated by using WinLinux 2000, but to put it bluntly, it was crap. I wouldn't recognise my graphics adaptor and I was stuck with 16 colours, I could only see a portion of the screen till I wacked the res right up.......... Thanks for the explanation. I would just like to commend this list for not making me feel as embarrassed as I would elsewhere, as I like to think that I've had a lot of experience in my native NT and I'm rather good.....so it's humbling to come down to the Linux level, and experience how some of my students must feel...... Regards, Robb Bloomfield ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger Whittaker To: The Royal Latin School Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 8:52 AM Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] VMWare non-commercial licence

Have a look at www.vmware.com

VMWare is a very cool piece of commercial software which allows you to run another operating system on top of Linux or on top of Windows NT. It does this essentially by emulating PC hardware in software, so you can for instance run VMWare on Linux and then install Windows into VMWare. Windows thinks it's being installed on hardware, but it's actually being installed into a software emulation of hardware. So you can run Windows or some other OS in a window on Linux. And when Windows crashes - no harm done.

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, The Royal Latin School wrote:

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Okay.....ignorance time and I know I'm going to be embarrassed...... Whats VMWare?

Regards,

Robb Bloomfield

----- Original Message ----- From: Roger Whittaker To: Schools List Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 8:25 AM Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] VMWare non-commercial licence

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There is a special deal available from us for VMWare for non-commercial / educational use - if anyone wants to know more please mail me off the list.

-- Roger Whittaker SuSE Linux Ltd The Kinetic Centre Theobald Street Borehamwood Herts WD6 4PJ ---------------------- 020 8387 1482 ---------------------- roger@suse-linux.co.uk ----------------------

-- Roger Whittaker SuSE Linux Ltd The Kinetic Centre Theobald Street Borehamwood Herts WD6 4PJ ---------------------- 020 8387 1482 ---------------------- roger@suse-linux.co.uk ----------------------