From: Ivan Krstic (krstic@fas.harvard.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 03 2004 - 21:09:58 EDT
shannon@areawidetech.com wrote:
> So is anyone out there using this setup...? I heard rumors of
> problems related to direct hardware access (the NIC) for wardiving
> purposes...?
I used to run the setup you mention (XP + VMWare Linux), but recently
switched to XP + coLinux, http://www.colinux.org/. So far, I'm very
satisfied; there's no emulation involved, so the speed is comparable to
what you'd expect from a native system. You can also - if you need to -
have multiple Linux distributions on your XP machine, and switch between
them without reboot.
Mind you, all I need from Linux is a shell. Consequently, I don't run X
in coLinux, and can't report on how well (or whether) it works, though
the documentation seems to suggest it works fine.
Cheers,
Ivan.
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