David Frascone wrote:
If you are mostly network-connected, another option to consider would be
putting linux on a different box somewhere and accessing it with freenx
and the windows NX client. You'll get approximately the same effect when
connected, plus the ability to disconnect with everything still running
which may or may not be an advantage, depending on what you are doing.
That's definitely an option. I had discounted NX in the past, since it
was incompatible with synergy -- but since I don't use synergy any more . .
Incompatible in what way? I run a windows desktop with synergy server
so its keyboard/mouse controls my laptop when it is docked beside it and
I can run NX on either or both with everything still working. The mouse
sometimes gets a little shaky if I also run vmware console remotely in a
linux session under NX, but it is still usable and I haven't pinned down
exactly which part of the combination triggers it. But I consider NX to
be the best of both worlds - you get local windows device and multi
monitor handling without tracking down new drivers after every update
and you can reboot if you need to while the linux box keeps running.
Plus you can disconnect the session and pick it up elsewhere. For
example, I can VPN to the office and connect from the Mac version at
home with everything still running.
I did forget one other question: When I re-do things, can I choose to
dual-boot *or* run the linux partition in vmware? Or, would it be
better to just pick VMWare *or* natively booting?
I know windows doesn't like to do both . . and I assume that linux won't
enjoy the constant driver changing -- but other than that . . . could
that be the "best of both worlds"? I could boot to linux sometimes --
or -- other times run in in a VM, off of the normal linux partition?
I had that working for a while but I think it kept breaking after
updates and wasn't really worth the trouble. If you need both,
I'd install a separate vmware system and work out some way to share only
the /home partition (mount the same raw partition as a 2nd drive but
don't use the rest of it).
--
Les Mikesell
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