Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 04:21:08 12/19/00
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On December 18, 2000 at 14:39:01, Paul Doire wrote: >I'm interested in the stability of the Linux O/S. >Mandrake appears to be the most user friendly and to be optimized for Intel >processors. Mandrake is easy to set up, also Corel Linux, Caldera ans Suse are very good. In general Linux requires a bit more PC knoveledge than windows does. >Wine and VMWare apparently allow the use of Windows programs, while running >the Linux O/S. >This seems to be the best of both worlds,the rock-like stability of Linux >and the flexibility of Windows applications. >I know that Wine and VMWare are not perfectly compatible with all Win Apps, >but I understand the developers are eager to help with all issues. >Does anyone have any experience,anr or feedback about this??? Wine emulates windows and works only with few apps. VMware emulates the PC and requires you install Windows in VMWare under Linux. It works very well with most of the apps, but you have to try your specific program one by one. I gues 95% of the app whould work. Some games using fancy graphics could fail. >Does Linux allow approx. 30% increase in performance over Windows 98SE, This sound like the usual anti-MS bull-shit. It is very difficult to compare this things in general, in most cases it does not make much sense to compare programs that are different and do only similar things, but in general I tend to belive that running an app in an emualtor you will hardly get more performance than from the native system. On the contrary you might like to pay some % of performance (that accounts to a small fraction of a ply for a chess program) to gain in stability. But remember that what is "more" stable is Linux and not Windows in VMWare. So if windows crashes and Linux stays up as a container it will not prevent the other windows programs from crashing, only the other linux apps will survive. So if you like to use, say, StarOffice under linux, you will not loose much after a windows crash. But if you were using word, well went down with windows in any case. Finally you can happily use xboard under linux (native program) regards Franz
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