[NTLUG:Discuss] Cheap Linux boxes at Fry's

[Robert Pearson]

On 1/9/07, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:57:23PM -0600, Robert Pearson wrote:
> > On 1/8/07, agoats <agoats at compuserve.com> wrote:
> > > That's a good start, but it could be a little more, maybe $450 or so.
> > >
> > > Alvin
> >
> > Anybody running Windows as the host OS on a laptop and VMware over it
> > with Linux as a VMware client? Seems like when I researched this last,
> > it would work?
>
> I did this for a couple of years and it worked very well, at least
> with the various versions of Red Hat/Fedora .  Since then I've
> switched to running Linux as the host OS and VMware over it with
> Windows as the VMware client.  :-)
>
> Pm

Thanks.
I guess I should have been more specific.
Can this be done when Linux and the laptop hardware are incompatible?
With VMware Server being free this is one way to make a cheap laptop run Linux.
VMware would translate Linux system calls into Windows equivalents and
everything would work in Linux.
This does leave you with the flawed, high Security risk Windows as
your first line of defense.
Maybe there is a better way?