On Sunday 17 June 2007 09:39, G T Smith wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Sunday 17 June 2007 01:13, G T Smith wrote: ...
However, as another poster pointed out one is leaving the Linux side fully open to Windows (in)security...
I'm pretty doubtful about that. In all likelihood, the black-hats would have to write exploits specifically for this combination, which they would not do until it came to be in relatively widespread use.
However, I took a quick look at the NTFS-3G site, and I noticed that it said FUSE was required. ...
That probably is a show stopper.. there probably could be a work round (e.g. a windows exe that mounts an appropriate image) but this then gets all rather involved again. Rather depends how many hoops one wants to jump through to get something to work...
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Simple or complex, I don't think it would go beyond being a curiosity for me. It would still be a dual-boot solution, and I don't need that—I require concurrent access, which is why I use VMware.
Likewise on former, if I need to do stuff in Linux and Windows at the same time (which is rare), booting into Windows and using Cygwin to create an X session to another box works for me...
Well, Cygwin (http://cygwin.com/) is one of the first things I put on every Windows installation I use, and that includes the one running under VMware under Linux. I tend to have had little use for the Cygwin/X (http://x.cygwin.com/).
The OP suggested this as an option for new users so that would not need to repartition their hard drive on installing. I am not too sure that this idea would be a good initial offering for a newbie ...
If the technical issues could be solved, my hunch is that it would prove a better transitional alternative than one of the so-called "Live" CDs / DVDs. Probably even better would be a VMware Server appliance with a Linux image all ready to go. Has anyone built one of these, yet? Either way, most everyone with a system built (or upgraded) within the past few years has enough disk space for one of these solutions. Having enough RAM to efficiently use a concurrent / virtualization-based approach (rather than a dual-boot approach) is another question. 2 GB is enough, but I think that's still a lot for most casual Windows installations. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org