Quote Originally Posted by ZeZipster View Post
I wouldn't ever bother with WINE or VMWare. Too much processing, often glitchy, and is not as easy as dual booting operating systems. Dual Boots for the win.
Yeah, I am looking to have my server and game design running on one machine, asynchronously. So yeah, it would look like virtualization for me. We have been doing a lot of work with VMware on production class servers at work, and we hardly experience a miss in the beat.

Realistically, we have virtualized and saved ourselves about half the amount of computers on our racks, and there has been no real performance hits (that I am aware of) thus far.



this is really, really cool.
That is just amazing!

I ran XP Pro under VMWare in Gentoo for a while and it was quite usable for the most part, but I just got annoyed with the occasional stutter and longer than normal loading times for things. I prefer dual-booting (actually I'm quad-booting. ).
Interesting, and thanks for the tip. I just need windows to have the direct hardware access - though I never admit to being any good with WINE (I did get it to play WoW though) I didn't really think it a feasible alternative.

I am most certainly in the same boat as you with RAID, I am not a huge fan of it, lest it is mirrored. Seen to many a RAID die due to write errors in parody to ever think twice about any serious speed raiding. I know I am in a minority on that though (at the local cooperate level)

For programming, I like to use Anjuta (GTK C IDE) for Linux or Visual Studio 2005 for Windows. All of my media is on Linux. I run XFCE4 with Beryl 0.2.1. Most of the time WINE is good for my Windows needs (it runs Oblivion, so that's good enough for me ).
I will certainly look into Anjuta. I think you had mentioned it once on this site, and I looked into it a little then, but then got pulled away. I am looking at dropping KDE and going with XFCE / Beryl, as it is what my roomate ( a bettar linux man than I ) runs. He is quite fond of it.

VMWare is okay, but you really can't run resource-consuming programs on it efficently. Usually I use it for testing, and running Windows 3.11 when the notion hits me
Yeah, the slackware I am running in the VM is just a minimalist server with a few of my tools. I really don't think I need much. I am also a bit lost as to where all these bad experiences come with. I love the thing.

stuff about GRUB
LiLo!