[plug] re: virualisation

[Gregory Orange]

Paul Antoine wrote:
> I imagine that for financial apps you may find Crossover both sufficient 
> and faster.  I've had a lot of success running M$ Excel etc. in addition 
> to a range of electronics CAD tools I use under Crossover. Photoshop 
> reportedly runs ok under Crossover too, especially if as you say you're 
> just using it for small editing jobs.
> 
> This removes the need for a Win XP license (saves some $$s), and as an 
> added bonus you can cut and paste between linux and windows apps.
> 
> Thought you'd like to know all the options :-)
> 
> BTW: I run the Win apps under Crossover/Ubuntu on an old IBM T30 laptop 
> with 512MB of memory and a crappy P4M CPU running at 1.8Ghz. I can't run 
> Xen and I don't dare contemplate just how slow VMWare would be on this 
> hardware.

You could throw some more RAM at it, and it would perform as good or 
better than my Ubuntu+VMWare+XP setup. But if Crossover does the job and 
you don't need to run two OSs, then I think you're onto a good thing.
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