[nflug] Alternate to VMWare

Joe josephj at main.nc.us
Sun Jan 28 01:12:28 EST 2007


C. Hatton Humphrey wrote:
> I won't hijack Mark's thread but it is timely - I've been testing out
> a new tool that is similar to VMWare but is open source.  It's called
> VirtualBox.
>
> http://www.virtualbox.org/
>
> I installed it and then installed XP in it (I'm running FC5 on the
> laptop since that's what we're teaching)... I have to say that I'm
> impressed.  Compared to all of my previous excursions with virtual
> machines, this thing flies.
>
> To the point that I'm putting off the attempt to get Outlook 2k3
> working via wine (need it for the Exchange server) and am just going
> to use the virtual machine.
>
> Hatton
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Anyone tried Dragon Natural Preferred 9?
I'm planning to get this and run it somehow - even if I have to dual
boot to Windoze just to run it.

I've heard 7.0 works in wine and probably in VMware Workstation, but I
don't know about newer versions, etc.

Joe
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