jdd wrote:
J Sloan a écrit :
I have zero interest in running a captive toy linux session on ms windoze. Linux runs best on the bare metal, but running "linux" as a program on an ms windoze peecee gains nothing, but carries costs and risks.
there are very big advantages to this.
think at all the schools and formation instaitutes that use dayly windows machines and don't mind to install linux on then, how can you teach Linux there? the best way is running virtual machine on top of windows.
I do so for years, now, but VMware is extremely expensive. Xen on Windows should be a very good news, for example...
No, that's bad news - to introduce linux as some sort of dorky toy ms windoze program is damaging to linux and gives a very bad impression of it. If a school uses only ms windoze, that is the real problem, and it can be approached in many ways. Anything would be better - linux on cheap boxes, dual boot, virtual windoze or wine on linux desktops - all are better solutions that the one you advocate. Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org