"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:<4058f2de$0$8359$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> "Paul Drake" <drak0nian_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1ac7c7b3.0403171647.4a864791_at_posting.google.com...
> > "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message
> news:<405878a0$0$8359$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> > > Fedora is, to coin a phrase, a steaming pile of ... er, well, you get
> the
> > > picture.
> > >
> > > It doesn't install as a Vmware guest. It won't install onto my (very
> much
> > > physical) laptop.
> > >
> > > This despite Mandrake 9, Mandrake 9.1, Suse 7.2, Suse 7.3, RHAS2.1,
> RHAS3,
> > > RH8, RH9 and Xandros all installing perfectly onto both.
> > >
> > > I thought Microsoft got a bad name for making their users beta test
> their
> > > software?!
> > >
> > > And yes, I know Fedora is the "experimental" branch of the Red Hat tree.
> But
> > > I think in the context of Oracle I would leave the experimenting to
> others.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > HJR
> >
> > Howard,
> >
> > someone was nice enough to post this on the ORACLE-L today:
> >
> > ===========================================================
> > 1) There is a new 4.5 version of VMWare Workstation
> > (dated 15 Mar 2004) that now additionally supports:
>
> That's nice, Paul. I was there last night having a look to see whether there
> was a new version, but couldn't see it. Thanks for the heads-up. Shame it's
> now 34MB of download, instead of the previous 23MB or so, though!!
>
> > A) RH Enterprise 3.0 as a Guest OS
>
> (Dunno about that. It's been working fine for me in the old version as it
> is!).
>
> > B) Support for SuSE LINUX 9.0 as a Guest OS
> > C) Updated LINUX support for 2.6 kernels, and some
> > advanced features in RH 9 as a Guest OS.
> > D) Support for Netware 6.5 as a Guest OS.
> >
> > The complete Guest OS info can be viewed at:
> > http://www.vmware.com/support/guestnotes/doc/index.html
> > ===========================================================
> >
> > RedHat 9 is listed, Fedora is not.
>
> Jeez!
>
> >
> > hth.
>
> It does a lot. Thanks again.
>
> Regards
> HJR
right, then.
I did know better, posted anyways.
won't make the mistake again.
Pd
Received on Thu Mar 18 2004 - 01:34:58 CST
