Don't be afraid, Linux isn't just for geeks

USA Today - USA

It came out earlier this week that Dell will soon offer computers running
Linux instead of Windows.

<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2007-05-04-linux_N.htm>

 

"Not all of its machines, obviously — the company wants to stay in business
— but Linux will be an option on at least two desktops and one laptop
models."
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2007-05-04-linux_N.htm>



HTH HAND FROAD

 

And with VMware it isn't an either this or that choice. You can have
multiple operating systems on the same box with Linux or Windows as the
host OS. You aren't limited by what Dell or any other vendor decides to
shove pre-installed on the drive.

 

VMplayer is great, no dual booting or other hassles.

Painless to run Linux and when Ubuntu asked for a password (it's
Ubuntu) I just switched to XP and searched for it; back to Ubuntu and
input it.

No real overhead, nothing of your WinOS is changed in anyway, it's all
done with a file.

Free VMplayer http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

Grab a Ubuntu of your choice here:
http://isv-image.ubuntu.com/vmware/

 

You sure about that?

 

The only problem I had was my sound card didn't work, but it doesn't
work under any version of Linux (so far).

But no, I have a very responsive system running vmplayer and Ubuntu.

I dual boot two XP OS's and have VMware Workstation installed on the
second OS - what a waste I have no use for it but it would be really
nice to run WK2 again - but it has more of an overhead but nothing
drastic.