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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Bonk on February 03, 2006, 11:17:40 pm
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This looks pretty cool 8):
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
Gonna try downloading it over my painfully slow connection... I see a FreeBSD6 VM for it too! I wonder if anyone's made a QNX VM for it yet...
I look forward to the release of the GSX server for free. We just might be able to use that at Xenocorp. At a minimum it will be fun to play with! ;D
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I got as far as running VIM on minix. Its gonna take me a while to download VMware's Ubuntu "Browser Appliance" image... (~22 hours :(... frickin dial-up...).
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Haven't tried It yet, Heck, I never even heard of It untill today when you posted. If you want, I'll download It, and give It a shot to report back to you.
Stephen
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I've been hearing about it recently and been thinking about trying it out. It seems like a great way to try out different linux distros (and other OSes like one of the BSD's) before "really" installing them.
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Haven't tried It yet, Heck, I never even heard of It untill today when you posted. If you want, I'll download It, and give It a shot to report back to you.
Stephen
Only if you're interested, I'm going to play with it regardless. I'm playing "advent" on minix now while I wait for the Ubuntu image download... takes me back. ;D
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I've been thinking about playing around with PC-BSD, but I don't really want to clear off either Windows or Linux to try it out. This sounds like the perfect way to see just how much I like it.
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Haven't tried It yet, Heck, I never even heard of It untill today when you posted. If you want, I'll download It, and give It a shot to report back to you.
Stephen
Only if you're interested, I'm going to play with it regardless. I'm playing "advent" on minix now while I wait for the Ubuntu image download... takes me back. ;D
IF that's the new Final Fantasy Advent, You better be mailing me something Bonk. :D
Stephen
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My experiences with vm ware, running ms dos, and then linux while the main os is windows xp were mostly good. Do make sure your vmware emulator is the most up to available. With the ms dos, a number of commands where missing. The experiences of the teacher that was using it, is that is also an easy way for an inexperienced user to badly mess up his computer
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IF that's the new Final Fantasy Advent, You better be mailing me something Bonk. :D
Couldn't be much farther from it:
http://www.minix3.org/manpages/man6/advent.6.html
It reminds me of a game I played on the local municpalities computers back in 1978. An IBM R2 I think it was, but it might have been a VAX..., I don't really recall as I was just a kid, but I clearly remember the green monochome terminals, the huge disk stacks under plastic sheilds and the text based game we played on it.
This might be the very same game...
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My experiences with vm ware, running ms dos, and then linux while the main os is windows xp were mostly good. Do make sure your vmware emulator is the most up to available. With the ms dos, a number of commands where missing. The experiences of the teacher that was using it, is that is also an easy way for an inexperienced user to badly mess up his computer
Yup, using the latest VMware player release (1.0.1) I could see how an inexperienced user could mess things up using a fully functional console OS with it, but I can also see how one could create a locked down linux or windows desktop image good for kids and grandmothers to browse the web safely on without clogging your host windows installation with spyware and trojans.
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I'm impressed... the browser appliance works out of the box, on dial-up too! I didn't have to configure a thing. 8)
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Next step is to demo the Workstation and see if I can set up a QNX VM...
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;) I still think Bonk just puts random letters together to make him seem smarter then me. ;D
Stephen
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Excessive obscure abbreviations and acronyms annoy me too... sorry...
QNX (pronounced Que'nix - a play on Unix) is a realtime OS: http://www.qnx.com
VM = Virtual Machine
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Ahh It was more of a joke then anything. Just keep doing what your good at bro.
Stephen
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I installed this last night, it works quite well.
I'd love to experiment with this app more, they have a 30-day full version trial that is very tempting.
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I'm impressed... the browser appliance works out of the box, on dial-up too! I didn't have to configure a thing. 8)
That's true with most Linux distros, and ubuntu has a very good reputation of things working out of the box. I tried it for a while on my second hard drive, but I found out really quickly that I prefer KDE over Gnome. Then I tried kubuntu, and found out really quickly that I prefer other distros over k/ubuntu. By the way, I just ditched SUSE for Slackware today. It runs a lot better, but requires the user to become a lot more familiar with the command line, which doesn't really bother me at all. I think I'll probably stick with this distro for a while.
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I agree, KDE on Slackware. :thumbsup:
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This one's got me thinking...
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/challenge/
And they're now offering the basic VMware server free now in addition to the player! :thumbsup:
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The workstation runs QNX quite nicely (posting from it now). 8)
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I also managed to try out the latest release candidate for PC-BSD on this and it works wonderfully.
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I must check out PC-BSD sometime.
I'm posting from Konqueror on a Knoppix VM loaded from an ISO now. It also works smoothly. (faster than running it from the CD) Though Mozilla or Voyager on QNX was considerably snappier.
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Just built my new desktop PC. AMD X2 4800 with 2 GB or RAM. Today I successfully ran 2 XP Pro, 1 Windows 2000 Server, a Linux, and OS X VMs at the same time and the system was still responsive.
Makes me wonder if I can host a D2 Server on 1 VM while playing on the host OS . . .