Lindows

On Saturday 05 April 2003 06:44 am, Ed Skinner wrote:

>      My guess is you will want to have (or develop, or hire/contract) a
> fair bit of expertise with WINE regardless of what Lindows (or RedHat, =

for
> that matter) does. And even with that, you'll want to set the expectati=
ons
> of others carefully. There will be those for whom a Microsoft Operating
> System will remain as the best choice.

=09My expectation is that I will probably have two or three engineers fir=
e up a=20
vmware instalation the two times per week that they need to design or rev=
iew=20
a few parts.

=09Why vmware? $300 per chair is cheap compared to the rest of the appli=
cations=20
I can supply for free on their primary Linux desktop, as well as the=20
inconvienece of rebooting. That and vmware can be a memory hog. Its not=
=20
something you want to leave open all the time, thus eliminating the=20
"omni-present freeware" installs that happen fairly regularly on win32=20
platforms. It will be awhile before those programs migrate to Linux.

=09Most like Linux already, (though they can't be converted until the maj=
or=20
database is no longer an access database in june) and there is actually s=
ome=20
level of fascination with non-windows platform.

=09We'll see. Though if it isn't packing a BIG WINE punch, it looks like=
I may=20
be crossing Lindows off my list for the time being.

Kyle Faber
EMR Internet.com