Linux and Windows on one Intel PC
Posted by
Ray Henry
on 1999-06-10 07:38:29 UTC
Hi
I'm a newbie here thanks to Fred Proctor's post on the EMC list.
I've got Linux and the EMC sim running on a cyrix 300. I can dual boot to
win95 using LILO. Somewhere down the road I plan to add a network. For
machines I'm interested in lathes and have a couple old mills.
I see some stuff listed here about needing both Linux for machine control
and Win for cad/cam. The recent printed issue (June 7, 1999) of info world
had a review of VMware. In that article, "VMware runs windows under
Linux," the author reported on this software which allows windows to run as
a terminal under Linux. Using this program you can switch back and forth
between OS's without reboot. And if windows gives you the death message,
it just wastes that terminal not all of them.
From the article, it sounds like you will need to get a working copy of
Linux running and then use VM to load a copy of the Microsoft Windows of
your choice. Windows will run slower for some apps but you might consider
VM if you need both systems on the same machine. The mag said $99 with a
special for a few more days. I'm not affiliated with VM.
Ray Henry
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Infoworld - http://www.infoworld.com (article isn't there yet)
VMware - http://www.vmware.com
Infoworld article Author - kevin_railsback@...
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I'm a newbie here thanks to Fred Proctor's post on the EMC list.
I've got Linux and the EMC sim running on a cyrix 300. I can dual boot to
win95 using LILO. Somewhere down the road I plan to add a network. For
machines I'm interested in lathes and have a couple old mills.
I see some stuff listed here about needing both Linux for machine control
and Win for cad/cam. The recent printed issue (June 7, 1999) of info world
had a review of VMware. In that article, "VMware runs windows under
Linux," the author reported on this software which allows windows to run as
a terminal under Linux. Using this program you can switch back and forth
between OS's without reboot. And if windows gives you the death message,
it just wastes that terminal not all of them.
From the article, it sounds like you will need to get a working copy of
Linux running and then use VM to load a copy of the Microsoft Windows of
your choice. Windows will run slower for some apps but you might consider
VM if you need both systems on the same machine. The mag said $99 with a
special for a few more days. I'm not affiliated with VM.
Ray Henry
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Infoworld - http://www.infoworld.com (article isn't there yet)
VMware - http://www.vmware.com
Infoworld article Author - kevin_railsback@...
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