RE: OT - unix vs linux vs windows - the future

• "Orr, Steve" <sorr_at_rightnow.com> on 07/16/02 08:09:23 -0800

> I'm impressed because I'm of the same persuasion but I'm not quite so
> pious/zealous and am still somewhat enslaved to the M$ beast/devil because
> of the company usage of Exchange with MS Outlook for Calendar and workflow.
> I run Linux on the laptop via VMWare but because of the Outlook dependency,
> running Pine, Mozilla or whatever is not a viable email solution for me.
> Sigh...

Try it the other way around and you get better performance: run VMWare on linux w/ W2K on the VM. Linux does a better job at multi-tasking and samba works wonderfully for file sharing. Add in a touch of portforwarding and a dash of NAT and it comes out fairly tasty..

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