I've been playing with VirtualBox just recently. I wanted to give this a
go, but without the cost of buying Parallels, or VMware, and of course
the price of Windows too. It's onlt something that I want to try, merely
out of interest really, although it could become useful at some point.
Anyway, I found the open source VirtualBox, from Sun, and so far it
seems to be quite good. I have a working copy of Windows 98 in one
setup, and I've just installed Ubuntu into another.
Win98 was more of a pain, and I still haven't been successful in getting
it to network - the screen res. is a bit pants too.
Ubuntu OTOH is bloody good. I've just got it installed, which it did
much faster than on any of the PC boxes I've installed it onto, and it
generally feels much faster overall in use too. It's currently
downloading the latest updates, and is peaking at 700KB/s on my
broadband. As expected, it just 'works'.
So far, I'm mildly impressed by it, but that's only because I've only
really tried Win98 so far.
Any pointers?
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Andy Hewitt
<http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/>
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