[plug] Linux ver Windows in Program development

[William Kenworthy]

get a vmware licence and install the required windoze into that. I used
run two day compiles of library code for visual C++ in the background
under vmware/windoze whilst compiling similar libraries for Linux on the
main OS - and doing all this on my RH 6.2 box whilst using it for my day
to day work/email, tertiary backup NIS server, tertiary backup DNS etc. 
Was a bit sluggish at times when really being flogged, but that was with
a 500 M processor and 256M ram (later 512 which gave a big boost in
speed)  A modern dual processor machine with lotsa ram would have been
really nice ...

BillK

* you could run linux in vmware on windows (the reverse of the above),
but I dare it to stay up and be as reliable as the above was running all
that at the same time!

On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 14:29, David White wrote:
> Hi all. I have a odd situation here. My dad develops Software in FORTRAN 
> that has to run on W2k for Alcoa. He has a W2k box and a emergency backup 
> WinNT4 Box. He would like to use Linux as his primary OS but is constanly 
> compiling and testong his programs. Is there some way that he can do all 
> this under linux and when a version compilation is needed then can boot 
> into W2k and compile the windows version without changing anything. He 
> needs a windows api for his program and if anybody has infomation on 1) a 
> linux version of the Windows api that is exactly the same. 2) A fortran 
> compiler that is later than g77
> 
> Tim
>