comp.sys.mac.advocacy

"Maverick" stated in post
VJWdnaPlVKQ_RGLanZ2dnUVZ_sKqnZ2d@bresnan.com on 4/11/08 2:35 PM:

> Mayor of R'lyeh wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:22:15 -0700 (PDT), Dave Fritzinger
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Interesting article in Business Week.
>>>
>>> http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2008/tc20080410_206881.htm
>>>
>>> "The 20-year death grip that Microsoft has held on the core of
>>> computing is finally weakening--pried loose with just two fingers. With
>>> one finger you press "Control" and with the other you press "right
>>> arrow." Instantly you switch from a Macintosh operating system (OS) to
>>> a Microsoft Windows OS. Then, with another two-finger press, you
>>> switch back again. So as you edit family pictures, you might use Mac's
>>> iPhoto. And when you want to access your corporate e-mail, you can
>>> switch back instantly to Microsoft Exchange."
>>
>>
>> I've been saying for months that Apple is missing a Golden Opportunity
>> by not making the fact that any OS can run on Macs the centerpiece of
>> an ad campaign. It might not sit well with the Mac Faithful but it
>> would certainly make a lot of other people take a second look at Mac
>> HW.
>>
>
> You are quite correct. This was the main point I used to determine
> which hardware and os to purchase. Now that I have VMware on my iMac, I
> run Solaris 10 in a virtual machine. I've tried various flavors of
> Linux, but it seems that Suns Solaris works the best. At first I made a
> stupid booboo and after installing SunStudio12 I put into the system
> profile the PATH=/usr/opt/SunStudio12/bin. Needless to say I was in a
> hurry to try out Suns compilers, but noticed that nothing came up
> correctly. Fortunately, the snapshot function of VMware saved a lot of
> hassles and rolled back to a previous state and corrected my error.
>
I had Windows in VMware crash on me at launch... said it needed to use a
backup of the registry and that all was OK - but it was not. Programs were
no longer working, associations were broken, etc. I backed up some newer
files, used the restore snapshot feature and brought the files back (a
simple drag and drop from the Mac "side" - easy).

The video drivers for Linux, at least the default ones, are lacking, but
other than that VMware's Fusion has been excellent for me.


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