[X4U] Linux on Virtual PC

[Gretchen Hayman]

On Feb 15, 2005, at 12:17, Richard Gilmore wrote:

> Why are you installing Linux on Virtual PC? I think that would be 
> incredibly
> slow.

It is definitely slower than an install on a real PC, but it's much 
easier to carry a single 15" TiBook around with a VPC install with 
Win98, Win2K, WinXP, two linux kernels, and DOS than it is to carry 
around all the PCs (cheap or not) it would require to run all of those 
OSs.

If you do serious development on multiple platforms, you need to have 
those OSs available whenever you need them, regardless of your 
location.  So, while you're sitting on that 13-hour flight to Japan, 
you can get your work done even though there isn't a cheap PC in sight 
(unless you count Dell laptops).  ^_^

But hey, that's just why my husband runs linux, etc. on VPC on his 
TiBook.  It's not about speed, it's about convenience and availability.

And if you get bored, your inner geek can fire up Classic and VPC and 
run eight OSs at the same time on one computer... just because you 
_can_.  ;)

gretchen