sound & partitions

[Gil Hauer]

One of the important constraints that I've found is not so much CPU
power but the amount of RAM available on the machine. I've happily run
VMWARE on a 900MHZ P3 with 512 MB of ram.

Gil

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 20:38, Chris Aitken wrote:
> Byron Sonne wrote:
> 
> > > 3. I could continue to use Pro Tools Free on W98SE for the music
> > > recording part of my business, but I would prefer to do everything in linux.
> >
> > Maybe you could half'n'half it; run win98 inside linux as a vmware
> > machine. I know that sounds kinda lame, but that kinda thing is really
> > quite handy and I've been floored by how well the hardware
> > emulation/sharing works.
> 
> Really? That is intriguing. I hate rebooting between OSs (it is dual-boot W98SE/
> redhat 7.3 at the moment). I don't mind VMWARE getting my hundred bucks (am
> I being naive here?), but I'll want it to work. It's an 800 Duron. That would be
> penutlimate
> to Heaven - work on Pro Tools Free in W98 SE and switch without reboots to linux
> for
> email, AbiWord, and expermenting with sound recording in linux!
> 
> But is that the most likely to be better than crossover or win4lin for running Pro
> 
> Tools Free in Windows 98 SE to record musical instruments?
> 
> Chris A.
> 
> 
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