Re: RDi and Linux

I'm a Mac guy. I don't run Parallels in Coherence mode though. It
works, and I can see that it's cool, but I have my Win XP instance as
a separate 'thing'. I start it up when I need it, and close it down
when I don't. I spend most of my time in OS X and a small amount of
time in XP, so my method works for that scenario.

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hmm... that does help quite a lot, and it appears a Mac would give me what I
want. I just didn't want to fork out the money to pay for the Apple name
:-P But if it can run WDSC like you are saying it can (and any other
Windows specifc app), then that would be quite nice.

BTW, I have spent the past nearly two hours trying to get Crossover Linux
working with Outlook 2003.... a Mac might be in my future.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

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