[computer-go] now: operating systems and love

[Mark Boon]

Yes, you do need to factor in the cost of the OS. I have an official  
version of Windows XP, I haven't heard much good about Vista. I  
believe it costs something like $150 when buying separate. It's not  
exactly free when buying a PC either, of course. Yes, they do try to  
limit using it on only one computer.

Cost-of-ownership is different for everyone of course, but despite  
Linux being free it never seemed worth it to me.

Mark


On 8-apr-08, at 12:00, Don Dailey wrote:

>
>
> Mark Boon wrote:
>>
>> On 8-apr-08, at 08:50, steve uurtamo wrote:
>>
>>> There's another way, and it's not too bad, depending upon how
>>> often you want to switch operating systems.
>>>
>>> Get a second drive.
>>
>> Oh, that is so passé! ;-)
>>
>> I gladly pay $80 for VMWare Fusion and can use whatever OS pleases me
>> at the same time as Mac OS. The windows can even interact with
>> copy-paste and drag-and-drop. I just haven't found a reason yet why
>> I'd install Linux or FreeBSD. Who knows someone will write a Go
>> program that only runs in Linux that I'd like to have?
> If you have Mac OS you already have a reasonable OS so there is no
> reason to go to Linux.
>
> But how do you get Windows on VMWare?    Do you use an illegal copy or
> do you buy a new copy of Windows for installation?
>
> How much does it cost for Vista if I were to go to the store to buy a
> "legal" copy?    I would never do that unless my job or some other
> compelling reason required this,   but just to put things into
> perspective,  how much would it cost?
>
> I don't have a problem with paying for VMWare, and there are other
> simulators too that are open source) and I would even put Windows  
> on it
> for those rare occasions when I could use windows, but not if I  
> have to
> support MS to do it.    I'm pretty sure Windows forbids you run a  
> payed
> for copy of their OS on more than 1 computer at a time without  
> paying them.
>
> Years ago I used VMWare at my job and it worked fine but it's still  
> not
> quite the same as running a dedicated OS.    But I hear it's not bad
> these days.
>
> - Don
>
>
>>
>> Mark
>>
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