[lug] Linux , Mozilla, Web-dev

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

I've tried this a couple of times.  The first time was on a Pentium 120
(you can probably imagine how that went).  The second time was with
Windows 2000.  Obviously it was slower than running it natively, but
still acceptably fast.  The problem I had was the VMWare configuration
thingie knocked out my printer.  I've never been sufficiently motivated
to resolve this.

I may try again one of these days.

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 at 11:20 -0700, John Hernandez soliloquized thusly:
> Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:
> 
> | When it comes to testing, I tend to get rather paranoid.  This means,
> | among other things, creating a test environment as close as possible to
> | the production environment.  This, in turn, means running IE on Windows.
> | It's annoying (especially if, like me, you're working on a dual-boot
> | machine), but there's really no way around it.
> |
> | -d
> |
> 
> Run a Win98 guest OS in VMWare, and sleep or renice it when you're not
> actively testing Internet Exploder.  You'll want a decently fast
> processor and ample RAM in your box.  I found that the more recent
> NT-based bloated Windows versions are SLOW as guest OS.
> 

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