From: Shayne Flint <shayne@ainslie-software.com>
Subject: Re: urgent question to maintain the ada-language inside the enterprise
Date: 2000/09/27
Date: 2000-09-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39D1D955.C5EA146E@ainslie-software.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8qrrdk0191a@drn.newsguy.com
nospam@nospam wrote:
> In article <r58A5.6582$O7.121171@ozemail.com.au>, "Chris says...
>
> >
> >And it doesn't have to be one or the other. My current favorite platform is
> >a dual boot PC with (NT4/W2000) and Linux. This gives the best of both
> >worlds, and you only need a single box on the desk.
> >
> >You can use MS Office to do all the usual corporate stuff (Staroffice
> >isn't quite there yet), then hit ctrl-alt-del, and you have all the good old
> >Unix "pigs in mud" Makefiles, CVS, editors, shell scripts and more. I do
> >most Ada programming on Linux.
> >
> >I see this as being a common arrangement in coming years.
>
> Chris,
>
> my arrangment I think is even better than yours.
>
> I use Linux and have vmare running on it. I installed NT on vmware.
>
> vmware is a virtual PC. I do NOT have to reboot to use windows. I have
> windows right now running inside an X window along side all my other
> Linux applications. NOt only that, using SAMBA, I have all my windows
> data saved on my linux disks (easy to manage backup etc..).
>
> It is great. The speed is not as good as when running windows native, but
> for what I need it for, the speed is not that important (my hand is slow
> anyway).
>
> check it out. you can get a 30 days free trial of vmware for linux.
> http://www.vmware.com
>
> ps, this is not some sort of wine like thing, vmware runs ALL windows
> applications, any one of them. you can install not only windows on the
> vmware software, but any PC based OS theortically. I read that freebasd
> could also be run on it. check vmware site for supported OS's.
Have a look at www.win4lin.com - it seems faster than vmware and is a lot
cheaper. Unlike vmware, however, it will only allow you to install win 95/98. If
limux is your main platform and you use windows for office apps, then Win 98 is
probably OK.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-12 18:27 urgent question to maintain the ada-language inside the enterprise DC
2000-09-13 0:00 ` bill
2000-09-12 0:00 ` DPH
2000-09-25 4:31 ` Robert Dewar
2000-09-25 0:00 ` peter
2000-09-26 0:00 ` DPH
2000-09-26 20:55 ` Chris Miller
2000-09-26 0:00 ` nospam
2000-09-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-09-27 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-09-28 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-09-27 0:00 ` nospam
2000-09-27 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-10-04 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-04 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-09-27 0:00 ` Shayne Flint [this message]
2000-09-27 0:00 ` Michael S. Simpson
2000-09-28 0:00 ` Greg Gorman
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