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November 2001, Week 3

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Peter da Silva <[log in to unmask]>
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Peter da Silva <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 19 Nov 2001 21:01:31 -0600
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In article <[log in to unmask]>,
Gavin Scott  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Now if you have another PC available running Windows NT/2000/XP that has
> 256MB of memory or so and at least 4GB of free disk space, then you don't
> need to bother setting up a separate Linux box (or the hell of dual-booting)
> because you can use either VMWare ($300, awesome, www.vmware.com) or Virtual
> PC for Windows ($200, haven't tried it, www.connectix.com) to run Linux
> inside a "virtual machine" under Windows.

Or the other way around... which would probably be more interesting. Since
Linux is more reliable and has better virtual memory than NT, that would
be the way to go for servers.

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