Re: VMware (Was "Microsoft Linux? This is a JOKE?")

["Michael S. Dunsavage" <mikesd ptd net>]

call me an idiot....what is vmware

--
Michael S. Dunsavage

"Linux: the operating system with a CLUE...
Command Line User Environment".
(seen in a posting in comp.software.testing)




On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Zoki wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Jerry Winegarden wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> ->manager. idiot.  oxymoron? (My present manager excluded, of course. He
> ->runs linux everywhere and NT under vmware)
> 
> 
> 
> *** Jerry,
> 
> Thanks to my NT Admin. who sabotaged the perfectly working Linux box I had
> running at work by blocking it's access to the rest of the companies
> network and by switching the electricity off in my office (!) to make it
> reboot (while I was on business trips), I'm in the process of installing
> Linux on the NT station. At least this way he won't be able to block my IP
> address since it's my NT's address. :-)
> 
> It's the Mandrake 6.0 distrib which should be equal to RH6. Vmware doesn't
> install on it because half way it complains about wrong version of make
> (don't have the exact error message). At this point I was wondering if
> there's a known issue with VMware and RH6? What's your manager running it
> on? The Mandrake is compiled for the i586.
> 
> Cheers!
>    _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ 
>   _/  Zoran GRBIC            _/ zoki admin magic fr  _/  Paris, FRANCE    _/
>  _/  Analyste UNIX & Oracle _/    Linux advocate    _/  Micro$oft clean  _/
> _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/
> Mailed with Linux & Pine...
> 
> "Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system. I guess I
> would be nervous too if my system was built on their technology."
>         -- Sun Microsystems President Scott McNealy.
> 
> 
> -- 
> To unsubscribe: mail redhat-list-request redhat com with "unsubscribe"
> as the Subject.
> 
> 
>