Try running a "modern" Linux desktop under VPC

Post #55,029 by altmann 10/5/02 2:41:13 AM Reply	Try running a "modern" Linux desktop under VPC You'll be fumbling to turn off as much eye-candy as possible, assuming you find it useable at all. OK for CLI stuff though. OS/2 isn't too snappy (or stable) on VPC either. For that matter, try Mac OS X on an underpowered machine. Too bad you can't just "turn off" Aqua. -- Chris Altmann
Post #55,102 by jake123 10/6/02 12:21:25 AM Reply	OS/2 under VPC You'll want to go to [link\|http:/www.innotek.de\|Innotek] and get their OS/2 addon for VPC for Windows. Innotek and Connectix have worked together to both bring VPC to OS/2 and to bring OS/2 to VPC as a guest. I'm expecting to get VPC for OS/2 sometime in the next month or so, myself... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- * Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca * * [link\|http://consultron.ca \|[link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca]] irc.ecomstation.ca * * Laval Qu\ufffdbec Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] * -------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #55,121 by dmarker2 10/6/02 11:13:31 AM 10/6/02 11:14:54 AM Reply	Re: I have been demonstrating RedHat 7.2 under VPC for ... our company for the past year. Also Mandrake & one other distro (just to push it). Our RedHat runs very well & achieves exactly the purpose intended. Even with a web server & disk sharing. I run it on a DELL notebook with 850 Mhz PIII & 512 MB ram. I don't try to run other apps at the same time. But we also run it on a DELL server with 3GB RAM, it runs exceptionally well ???. At home I have VPC on a 1.4GHZ P4 with 512MB RAM. That works very well also ???. What configs have you tried VPC with and also what version of VPC 4.0?, 4.3? - ??? Have you tried VPC 5.0 ??? - if no then I recommend you do - if yes, what was your problem ??? Cheers Doug #1 On Friday I installed RedHat 8.0 under VPC 5 - that is pretty 'modern' <grin> Edited by dmarker2 Oct. 6, 2002, 11:14:54 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #55,170 by altmann 10/6/02 5:15:22 PM Reply	Re: I have been demonstrating RedHat 7.2 under VPC for ... VirtualPC 4.3 on Windows 2000 on a Athlon 1.2GHz w/ 640MB RAM. Running Redhat 7.1 and 7.2 CLI was fine. I've used it to run Apache and PostgreSQL and some other stuff. It is fast enough to check out the desktop environments and see what new features were to be had, but for day-to-day use they were far from fast enough IMO. I guess it all comes to our respective definitions of "runs well". As for VPC 5.0, well it seems I've already downloaded the updater and never installed it :) I'll get back to you with how things improve from that. -- Chris Altmann
Post #55,177 by altmann 10/6/02 5:47:00 PM Reply	Ok, that's frightening (re: VPC 5.0) GNOME 2 on Redhat 7.2 is much faster now. I'd actually say it is day-to-day useable. Funny thing is, the Windows XP eye-candy under VPC 5.0 isn't all that bad either. Nowhere near as bad as when I first tried it under VPC 4.3. OS/2 is pretty snappy as well. I'll shut up now :) -- Chris Altmann
Post #55,211 by dmarker2 10/6/02 9:52:24 PM Reply	Re: I have been demonstrating RedHat 7.2 under VPC for ... VPC 5 has a new vitual motherboard & bios - they claim it runs much faster than 4.x - so far I agree. You can migrate from 4.3 to 5 but the OS will want to reconfigure the hardware (XP may want you to reregister <grin). Cheers Doug (PS I wouldn't use it in a normal production environment - only ever use VPC to test out installs & the various features prior to deciding a final install. But one app I run under VPC that alone makes it worth its weight in gold, is that I still need to compile MF Cobol programs & that requires a printer port dongle & also I can only get the ver of MF Cobol I have running under Win NT - it all works well under VPC.)

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