running windows via kvm module -- any experiences?
Matt Price
matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Wed Jan 31 14:51:40 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 04:00 -0500, E K wrote:
> I find OpenOffice good enough for the kind of work I do, The ability
> to export your documents to PDF and your presentation to flash are
> added bonuses. However, you can also install Abiword and Gnumeric for
> a lighter load version.
>
I like openoffice too, but until the bibliographic capabilities are
improved, it's really impossible for most academics to abandon the MS
WOrdEndnote combination (unless they use latex, in which case they're
already in a special category). Openoffice MAY get their act together
in the next 6 months, but I've been saying that for 3 years now...
> You can try Nvu as a Dreamweaver replacement, especially if she is not
> into server side scripting languages like ASP, PHP and JSP. Check out
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents for more Widows software
> replacements on Ubuntu. If the website that she is working on is her
> own website, she might like to migrate to Joomla, a content managemet
> system.
also probably not a solution -- she runs a small website in an ad-hoc
basis with a couple of grad students; they use dreamweaver, she uses
dreamweaver, her only interest here is in not having to use another
tool. maybe in the future though...
m
>
> hth
>
> ek
>
> ted leslie <tleslie-RBVUpeUoHUc at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> I went down this road,
>
> I installed SLED for my wife and she was ok with evolution
> email
> and firefox,
>
> but then "rock star supernova" and the other one, there web
> site used
> windows only codec's and the bastards (MS was tied to the
> production i
> think via MSNBC or something) they even had a chat board that
> wouldnt
> let you in unless you were using MS OS.
> Now supposedly with fluendo the MS media BS should be a thing
> of the
> past.
>
> Her Kodak digital camera worked right away with SLED10, as did
> her mp3
> player. Actually the kodak camera worked MUCH better on the
> Linux SLED
> then on windows or Mac(OSX 10.4) (which i am selling now,
> because
> compiz/beryl just so put it to shame). The kodak software for
> the mac
> and windows was just basic stuff, where as with SLED you were
> fully
> hookedup.
> The HP all in one printer sucked for support, i have a
> parallel
> interface, and linux seems to want USB for best support, but i
> did get
> it working in SLED10.
>
> The only issue now is that some web sites (like she is doing a
> Canadian
> passport application) and she even tried on a friends MAC with
> no luck,
> apparently thats a MS OS only site (havnt tried it myself),
> so i set up a VMWARE in SLED10 and now she can do online
> passport,
> and anything IE only related.
>
> She uses open office for xls/doc compat. with no issues.
>
> So she basically is 98% linux, and 2% MS when the need.
> the 2% MS venture is only because some yoodles have no idea
> about how
> to put up web content to be not-MS only.
>
> Training need to run linux/SLED was zero,
> just jumped right in an rocked.
> But then i did futz with the HP printer however,
> she would be printerless still to this day if it was just
> her working the SLED.
>
> the experienced did make me realize that until Linux can make
> sure
> 99% of popular printer out there are going to work and work by
> installation by any old brain dead user, Linux isn't quite
> ready to
> replace MS for everyone, but man its close for most.
>
> Your girl friends success is going to depend alot on what
> version of
> linux you use and her hardware. SLED is sweet, but I did drop
> 50$,
> but then i run it on a few machines :)
> I hear ubuntu isn't half bad so hopefully it works out for
> you.
>
> I WOULDNT advice VMWARE on WIN host with LINUX guest,
> in my experiencs of late in projects deplying VMWARE on
> windows to run
> linux, i had to abort, the
> or maybe they just struggle becasue MS OS makes it difficult,
> but you gotta do a VMWARE hosted on Linux and have vmware host
> the MS
> OS.
>
> -tl
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 18:06 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > My girlfriend is buying a new computer a month or two from
> now and I'm
> > hoping to convince her to let me install ubuntu feisty on
> it, and set up
> > a windows VM using the new KVM module and rdesktop. The idea
> of the VM
> > is to let her use software she feels she 'really needs' --
> right now,
> > this is MS Office, endnote and Dreamweaver (I'd like to make
> all 3
> > disappear, but that's another, longer-term project).
> >
> > Her main objection right now is that the person trying to
> convince her
> > is a known linux ideologue who spends hours at a time
> hacking on his
> > machine, and that she has no interest whatsoever in hacking
> -- she just
> > wants her computer to work for her in a fully transparent
> way.
> >
> > So I am looking for stories from people who have done this
> successfully,
> > and if possible some web postings that explain how easy it
> is to do, who
> > transparently it works, and how happy customers are when
> they get a look
> > at the superior OS which is GNUlinux (or ubuntu, or gentoo,
> or debian,
> > or whatever). cross-posting to the 3 communities I sort of
> belong to
> > (ubuntu, debian, toronto lug), sorry if you get multiple
> copies.
> >
> > Thanks loads! Looking forward to lots of success stories,
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
>
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Matt Price
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