Re: RDi and Linux

[Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron,

Check out youtube for a bunch of parallels + coherence videos. Here is the
first one that pops up: http://youtube.com/watch?v=rN9jNNeEd98  Coherence is
the mode in which your windows background 'disappears' and windows apps
appear as just another window on the OSX desktop. The main difference is
that you close a mac app from the top left, a windows app is closed from the
top right. Now I am used to that, there is no difficulty.

I have my OSX dock on the left of my screen, and the Windows taskbar across
the bottom of my screen. I can see all my running apps immediately. I can
start Windows apps from the OSX Finder (explorer) and OSX apps from Windows
explorer. The clipboard is shared 100% between the two.

I have an Ubuntu VM also, but it cannot run in coherence mode - only
full-screen or in a Window, which requires a little more management. There
is sharing between Linux and OSX, but it is a fraction more awkward than the
seamless Windows+OSX interface.

An i developer would start Windows - or just re-open the suspended VM - and
start WDSC like you normally do in Windows. At the same time, I can switch
to another window that is running iWeb or Pages or Numbers or Keynote - all
the excellent mac apps that I use.

Now I have this set up, and I am used to the keyboard vagaries (delete is
really backspace but FN+delete is delete, for example), I don't think twice
about whether an application is Windows or OSX. I prefer OSX apps, but if it
only works in Windows, it can run on my MacBook Pro.

HTH,
Trevor



On 6/11/08 8:49 PM, "Aaron Bartell" <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jon or Trevor could you expound on how well this would work?  Can the
> clipboard carry more than just text? (i.e. a screen shot)
>
> I would love to see somebody do a video tutorial on how an iSeries developer
> can use a Mac <hint><hint> :-)
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Why don't those of you who want to do Linux apps and Rdi get a MAC.
> >
> > You can run Windows and Linux style apps side by side....
> >
> > Looks pretty cool.  I might even do this for my next laptop.
> >
> > Yeah right....Thinkpads forever ... :-)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Richard Schoen