[Pdx-pm] RE: [Off Topic] *nix Question
T. William Schmidt
will at williamschmidt.com
Fri Jul 23 12:56:59 CDT 2004
>. I have heard a couple
>suggestions about transitioning over - CoLinux, running RedHat under
>VMWare, buying an old pc and putting Debian on it....
>
>Basically I want to be able to learn more about Unix basics and do it
>on my laptop - without changing over my main operating system. Any
>suggestions from the group? Any experiences with CoLinux?
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>
>Joel Stout (PDX PM Uberlurker)
>Calaban on PerlMonks
>EDI Systems Engineer
Hello Joel,
You are ahead of me because you already have the laptop. I want a ThinkPad
T41 running SuSE 9.1 (2.6 kernel). Put Linux on your laptop, whichever
distro you favor. Install VMWare on your host Linux and run one or more
virtual Windows in VMWare. Why? With Linux as your host OS and Windows in
virtual space, you have a perfect client/server development
platform. VMWare multiplexes the network hardware so that both server and
clients share the devices. You could do virtual Linux on a Windows VMWare
but this is client/server backwards for most uses of these two
platforms. How many companies are writing Unix clients to connect to
Windows servers?
I intend to buy the ThinkPad from http://www.emperorlinux.com/ with SuSE
pre-installed. I believe I can install Linux myself, there is certainly
enough documentation on the Internet, but I don't want to have to search
for drivers. EmperorLinux will get the latest drivers, do a burn in and
provide after sale support, which is worth it to me. Their depot repair
facility will even for a modest fee install the Linux of your choice on
your existing laptop. Not a bad service and the primary advantage is that
they get the drivers, resolve all the dependencies and save you the chore.
I understand IBM is selling Linux laptops in Europe and the prediction is
that they will be selling these in the U.S. next year. I also understand
that IBM is internally testing Linux desktops in the mode of eating their
own dog food, prior to a major retail effort to sell Linux desktops. I
can't wait to see which big PC vendor (IBM, HP or Dell) is the first to
embrace Linux on the desktop in a big way and provide a Doze retail
alternative.
Regards,
Will Schmidt
WilliamSchmidt.com, LLC
11201 NW 77th Street
Terrebonne, OR 97760
541 504-0290
will at williamschmidt.com
http://www.williamschmidt.com/
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