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to: Robert Comer
from: Mike `/m`
date: 2006-02-28 20:49:04
subject: Re: VMware player?

From: Mike '/m' 

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:43:48 -0500, "Robert Comer"
 wrote:

>> I think the blog author got into trouble when he copied his XP virtual
>> application from an AMD laptop to a Pentium laptop. That's when he got bit
>> by the processor ID change and subsequent XP activation
>
>Most likely.
>
>> Others - the 'community' virtual appliances -  have problems - KDE on SUSE
>> ( no sound ) and ReactOS 0.29 ( really bad alpha version of a windows
>> one  ), Syllable ( no network,  0.6 release that needs work  )
>
>Sound is one of the hardest things to configure on Linux. :( (right next to
>video if you have anything fancy)
>
>ReactOS is pretty useless from what I've seen of it.  Never heard of
>Syllable.
>
>I've heard good things about Ubuntu lately...

I've been keeping an eye on SUSE.  I tried an early beta of the next
release (10.1?) and it looks pretty clean.

 /m

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