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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> VirtualBox revisited
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>> | Armed with the original installation CDs, I was able to quickly set up
>> | virtual machines, called ?guests,? that could run Windows Vista, XP and
>> | 98 inside my Ubuntu Linux PC without much fuss. In this way, I was able
>> | to run Windows applications and switch between them and Linux programs
>> | simply by clicking on the appropriate window.
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>> http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business6_sept2_2008
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>> VirtualBox has been downloaded over 5 million times. And that's just a
>> very small player. So overall, how many people out there run GNU/Linux
>> under VMWare/Qemu/whatever?
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> You know you can install the windummy osen in Virtual Box running under
> Linux with a dual or quad core CPU and let users connect to it, and
> they will report faster networking because Linux scales and accelerates the
> windummy osen by factor or x2 or x4. Micoshaft doesn't scale so you can't
> do this with a machine running windummy OSen for real.
Best part is: if/when Windows BSoD's, you just press the close bottom and good
riddance. Not that I ever ran Windows in a window...
> Its just one of the many ways Linux is so much superior than windummy OSen
> that leaves micoshaft asstroturfers and marketing staff in permanent denial.
They try to use the Novell deal in order to pressure GNU/Linux users to put
Linux /under/ Windows, not vice versa. Novell received a lot of money to sell
out like this.
- --
"There's a lot of Linux out there -- much more than Microsoft generally signals
publicly -- and their customers are using it..." --Paul DeGroot, a Directions
On Microsoft analyst.
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