Operating Systems

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Wed May 16, 2007 11:20 am

WineHQ also refers to it as "a Microsoft Windows compatibility layer", and though it doesn't do everything, it works quite nicely with what it does work with (if that makes any sense)
Photoshop 7 runs wonderfully through Wine, and so does Notepad++ (not that the latter is all that hard to make work...)

Also, I was hoping someone would bump this, as I'd like to mention something more personal: I no longer have any reason to boot to Windows.

[cc]z@nd! · Post by **[cc]z@nd!** » Wed May 16, 2007 3:09 pm

cool. the only reason i keep on windows is because i'm big into games.

by the way, any distros you guys would recommend for a server? i burned the feisty fawn server iso, so i should be fine with it, but if you guys have any favorites tell me.

and while we're on the topic of distros, i hear backtrack is a good distro for pentesting/security, but haven't had a chance to try it out yet. anyone have anything to say about it?

XBC-Requiem · Post by **XBC-Requiem** » Wed May 16, 2007 7:54 pm

ScottyGEE wrote:You cannot have another OS on the same partition

(Buzzer noise)
Wrong.

Virtual PC 2007.

Free download from Microsoft. It allows you to install an OS on a "virtual partition" and run it inside of Windows (Works on XP and Vista flawlessly with my personal experience, and you can install about any OS).

Altimit01 · Post by **Altimit01** » Wed May 16, 2007 8:44 pm

There's also parallels for mac which does basically the same thing faster since it isn't an emulator but runs a similar compatibility layer like WINE. (Without DirectX support unfortunately) Of course that's not really installing an OS on a partition as it is installing an OS on a virtual partition inside of a partition. Sort of like how java doesn't technically run natively.

In other thoughts, anyone think it's worth a shot trying to get a local government to adopt OpenOffice or a Linux distro what with the advent and price of vista?

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Wed May 16, 2007 11:34 pm

XBC-Requiem wrote:
ScottyGEE wrote:You cannot have another OS on the same partition
(Buzzer noise)
Wrong.

Virtual PC 2007.

Free download from Microsoft. It allows you to install an OS on a "virtual partition" and run it inside of Windows (Works on XP and Vista flawlessly with my personal experience, and you can install about any OS).

Ugh. VMware has been out for ages...I had full knowledge of this kind of crap. It still isn't a proper OS on the same partition and doesn't work all that well...You can say flawlessly, but I'd commend you to run it properly against virtually. Like I've used OS X through Vmware and through a proper install...guess which ones faster?

XBC-Requiem · Post by **XBC-Requiem** » Thu May 17, 2007 9:01 am

I know that it doesn't run as fast as a clean OS, but I used to run XP Media Center in Virtual PC 2007 (Vista was my hard OS). It ran with speed comparable to that of a PC no more than a year old, and I had no issues with it, even with only 448mb of RAM dedicated to the virtual PC.

My PC Specs:
2.44ghz Dual-Core AMD processor
1gig RAM
160gig 7200rpg 8mb cache HDD

Now, I do run a killer graphics card, which allowed me to run Vista's stunnig visuals alongside a virtual PC, but that's not the point of this discussion. In fact, I actually have two now, a 512mb PCI-E and a 128mb PCI (One ATI, one GeCube ATI), and this is why I had to backtrack to XP, because Vista doesn't support old PCI graphics cards, but I only have 1 PCI-E slot, and two monitors just wasn't doing the trick... I had to have three...

Go here to see my PC