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Post #55,170
by altmann
10/6/02 5:15:22 PM
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New 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.
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Chris Altmann
Post #55,177
by altmann
10/6/02 5:47:00 PM
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New 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 :)
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Chris Altmann
Post #55,211
by dmarker2
10/6/02 9:52:24 PM
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New 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.)
     A good read - Connectix VPC guide slams Windows/XP - (dmarker2) - (12) - Oct. 4, 2002, 12:31:38 AM EDT
         Re: A good read - Connectix VPC guide slams Windows/XP - (andread) - (11) - Oct. 4, 2002, 11:25:50 AM EDT
             Re: We must have read different documents - (dmarker2) - (10) - Oct. 5, 2002, 01:13:45 AM EDT
                 Try running a "modern" Linux desktop under VPC - (altmann) - (5) - Oct. 5, 2002, 02:41:13 AM EDT
                     OS/2 under VPC - (jake123) - Oct. 6, 2002, 12:21:25 AM EDT
                     Re: I have been demonstrating RedHat 7.2 under VPC for ... - (dmarker2) - (3) - Oct. 6, 2002, 11:14:54 AM EDT
                         Re: I have been demonstrating RedHat 7.2 under VPC for ... - (altmann) - (2) - Oct. 6, 2002, 05:15:22 PM EDT
                             Ok, that's frightening (re: VPC 5.0) - (altmann) - Oct. 6, 2002, 05:47:00 PM EDT
                             Re: I have been demonstrating RedHat 7.2 under VPC for ... - (dmarker2) - Oct. 6, 2002, 09:52:24 PM EDT
                 Re: We must have read different documents - (andread) - (3) - Oct. 5, 2002, 05:15:30 PM EDT
                     Re: We must have read different documents - (dmarker2) - (2) - Oct. 6, 2002, 11:02:05 AM EDT
                         Re: We must have read different documents - (andread) - (1) - Oct. 6, 2002, 11:10:05 AM EDT
                             Re: We must have read different documents - (dmarker2) - Oct. 6, 2002, 09:45:10 PM EDT

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