Re: RDi and Linux

Wanted to post another comment as it relates to coherence, OS X, and WSDC.

I started doing some research to see if other virtualization vendors had a
similar feature and it turns out VMWare will be introducing it into the
VMWare Workstation product in version 6.5. This means to me that I could
potentially move my 5 rating down to 4 because I would have a solid work
around for using Ubuntu for my desktop while still having seamless access
to
WDSC/RDi.

Later,
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

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