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Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux
The Register ^ | Monday 3rd April 2006 | Ashlee Vance

Posted on 04/04/2006 5:18:21 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing

Microsoft today lobbed three massive bombs into the server virtualization market. First off, it will now support - wait for it - Linux, when the OS is running on top of its Virtual Server product. Secondly, Microsoft has made Virtual Server free. And, in a move few thought possible, Microsoft has teamed with the developers of the open source Xen product to gang up on server slicing leader VMware.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: gebait; linux; microsoft; windows
I'm surprised it's taken this long.
1 posted on 04/04/2006 5:18:22 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
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2 posted on 04/04/2006 5:20:02 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

http://www.mslinux.org/

(grin)


3 posted on 04/04/2006 5:59:26 AM PDT by Riley ("What color is the boathouse at Hereford?")
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To: Riley

:-P


4 posted on 04/04/2006 6:48:20 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. Apple's own numbers are hard to argue with.)
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To: ShadowAce

I guess this is significant - but.... what I really need is the other way around - I want to run linux but run windoze applications inside of it.

I know VMware is sposed to provide this and I'm sure it does - but doesn't one have to come up with a copy of windoze to run inside the VMware environment - or am I missing something here?


5 posted on 04/04/2006 7:31:20 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (When Bush says "we mustn't act like clowns," the RATS don their multi-colored wigs and greasepaint.)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
There are various options for running Windows applications under Linux. VMware is one--and yes, you do need a copy of Windows to install on the VM.

There are other VM options as well--Xen is probably the best-known non-VMware. I'm not sure how well it works yet, but I don't believe that Windows is suported.

WINE is another option. It comes in assorted flavors--WINE, Cedega, and CrossOver Office. Choose the one that best fits your needs.

You didn't mention which Windows apps you want to run under Linux. I've run Office apps, and a few games directly under Linux using Cedega, but not all apps/games are supported.

6 posted on 04/04/2006 7:35:23 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

I said this on April Fool's Day. Nobody believed me.


7 posted on 04/04/2006 7:54:30 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: ShadowAce

The windoze app that comes most quickly (no pun) to mind is Quicken - a friend of mine went to a WINE site that lists each app and how it works under WINE and it got an "OK but still buggy and some features don't always work right" rating - by that I assume that you could start it up and do some basic stuff but it wouldn't be an equivalent experience to running it on windoze - I haven't tried it myself however. I'm sure things will only improve and I can't imagine that Quicken does anything too exotic under windoze - it's OS calls I would think would be pretty basic - although I guess it probably has some hooks in to IE, which might be an issue.


8 posted on 04/04/2006 8:07:49 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (When Bush says "we mustn't act like clowns," the RATS don their multi-colored wigs and greasepaint.)
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To: ShadowAce
Microsoft has teamed with the developers of the open source Xen

A bit misleading. Xen, MS, and VMWare are competing in this marketspace, VMWare having the largest share.

9 posted on 04/04/2006 8:13:18 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
The reviews I've seen for Quicken are all older than November. However, Codeweavers has contributed quite a bit to Wine since then (They give all code to Wine when they release a new version of Crossover Office).

Depending on how old your version of Quicken is, you'd probably want to try it out under the latest version of Wine. It seems to be fairly decent from what I can tell.

Also, if you're familiar with financial software, check out GnuCash--it looks like it's Quicken-compatible.

10 posted on 04/04/2006 8:19:26 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Riley
price of only $249.99

I think I'll pass.

11 posted on 04/04/2006 8:46:19 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

More money for Microsoft. So not only are *nix companies losing their previously huge profits from Unix to the paltry ones they now get from linux, now they have Microsoft eating into whatever tiny linux profits there are for anyone. And Microsoft didn't even have to release a version of linux to do it, either, how smart was that. Those poor *nix companies, they thought they were damaging Microsoft when they started sacrificing their Unix cash cow for linux.


12 posted on 04/04/2006 9:55:38 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: ShadowAce; N3WBI3

Look, one of your buddies found some foreign website article about linux and created a new thread faster than you did! How did he ever do it?


13 posted on 04/04/2006 10:21:40 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Riley

ha!


14 posted on 04/07/2006 5:39:21 AM PDT by FLAMING DEATH
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

Best thing I've ever found for running Windows apps inside Linux is Crossover Office 5.0 Pro. I use it to install iTunes (right now iTunes 4.9 is the latest release to be officially declared compatible).


15 posted on 04/14/2006 1:52:13 PM PDT by bigdcaldavis (Xandros : In a world without fences, who needs Gates?)
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To: bigdcaldavis

Cool - thanks. I've also heard good things re: Crossover Office.


16 posted on 04/17/2006 4:50:06 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (When Bush says "we mustn't act like clowns," the RATS don their multi-colored wigs and greasepaint.)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

Of course Crossover Office isn't free.....**cough**bittorrent**cough**.


17 posted on 04/18/2006 8:04:23 PM PDT by bigdcaldavis (Xandros : In a world without fences, who needs Gates?)
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