[m-dev.] for review: minutes of meeting 09/03/2001

[Peter Ross]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:29:57PM +1000, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 12-Mar-2001, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > +	- There was a discussion of the need for a Windows machine for
> > > +	  testing the Windows and .Net distributions.
> > > +
> > > +	  	- VMWare considered a bit inconvenient because of its
> > > +		  memory usage.
> > > +
> > > +		- Dual booting a machine also inconvenient.
> > > +
> > > +		- Decided that Zoltan's old laptop, Traveller, will be
> > > +		  chained to a desk and run Windows so that anyone who
> > > +		  needs it can use it.
> > 
> > Another possibility is Win4Lin (http://www.win4lin.com) which lets
> > you run Windows from Linux with, I believe, a much smaller memory
> > footprint than VMWare.
> 
> I had a look at the Win4Lin site.
> I don't think Win4Lin will do what we want, because
> 	- we want to be able to run beta-releases of the .NET SDK
> 	- these beta-releases only work with Windows 2000
> 	- Win4Lin only runs Windows 95/98, not 2000 or NT.
> 
Beta 1 of the .NET SDK runs under Win95/98, just not all of the server
stuff will work.

However, I still wouldn't recommend it because Win95 sucks! I ended up
installing Win2000 on my laptop instead to play with .NET.

Pete
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