Subj : Re: Another linux note...
To   : Kevin Paradine
From : Tracker1
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 11:17 pm

Kevin Paradine wrote:
> Seems to me that you might as well just get VMware or Win4Lin and give 
> it a shot.  You're not going to believe that it will be slower than 
> molasses and introduce so many incompatibilities due to the incomplete 
> machine virtualization that you'll be going back to Windows very 
> quickly.  At least until you try it.
> 
> Please note that running a virtual host operating system (as in either 
> Win4Lin or Vmware) exposes you to all of the spyware/worms/etc that made 
> you want to switch off Windows in the first place.  They just run a lot 
> slower because of the virtualization.
> 
> Windows may stink, and Linux might be difficult, but virtualizing 
> Windows over Linux is worse than both.

As long as you have plenty of ram (can dedicate at least 256mb to the host,
and emulated system, and have a fairly fast cpu >2ghz, it isn't too bad,
but not nearly as fast as either alone.. to be honest, if you have a gui
install of *nix, you can get sync up and running pretty easily, the doors
are tougher... I run windows because I like it, and choose it, but there isn't 
any big reason to avoid a native install of sync, if you're already runing a 
*nix OS...

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