Re: [LUG] Re: What is/was your work desktop? was Re: [LUG} SIMS

[Kelly Jones <kellyjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes Fedora Core is excellent, Version 3 adds Gnome 2.8, Firefox 1.0 and Evolution 2.02 apart from that it's much the same as FC2.  VMWare is excellent and i can't recommend it highly enough, you can go full screen with an OS and it feels and looks exactly if it was running directly on the hardware.  I had a loft full of servers running various OS's for testing and educational purposes, i now have everything (except firewall) running on one cube system which is tiny, very powerful and didn't cost much to put together (less than i got for all the old server kit i had).  Best of all you can install a test system in literally minutes and VMware has a snapshot system which is similar to Windows XP system restore allowing you to trash an OS then restore it at the touch of a button.  The have also sorted out USB support in VMware which was something that always stopped me from doing this in earlier versions.


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 15:20 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: 
> Quoting Kelly Jones <kellyjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > I am self employed so i don't have to conform to any stupid work
> > policies.  I run Fedora Core 3 on  my desktop / server but due to having
> > so many Windows users i run Windows XP pro, Windows server 2003 (domain
> > controller) and Windows 98 all simultaneously under VM Ware on the
> > aforementioned Linux box.  I have just picked up a cheap laptop and
> > currently dual boot XP Pro and Debian sarge (very impressed with Debian
> > by the way and once i have it setup just right, i will use this 99% of
> > the time on the laptop only booting into XP to test hardware etc)
>
> Is Fedora Core 3 any good?  I was thinking about trying out Fedora Core 3 for 
> AMD64.  Your idea of running Windows XP seems like a good one, I figured 
> something like that would be easier than dual booting, only thing putting me 
> off VMWare is the price tag :-(
>
> Rob
>
>
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