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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45791

AMD and Intel Announce Settlement of All Antitrust
and IP Disputes - Intel Corporation and Advanced Micro
Devices AMD today announced

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Ozieo · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 648

Aaah! A agreement the good old big corporation-style : Hand over the cash !

OTOH, There's the good news, Hard disks become so big, that they'll probably die faster than you can fill them up and Youtube has been forced by legal institutions to serve higher resolution video's because investigation agencies have trouble with today low-res evidence, and the new Microsoft OS is able to be installed on a dual-boot system, and the latest greatest in America's terrible music history made a new video clip !!!!

Four times HOORAY for that !!

Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4194

Why would you dual boot Linux and not just run a virtual machine of Linux on Windows 7? I also run Linux off a flash stick for that matter. With a vm you can keep snapshots and jump back to time periods easily.

Ozieo · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 648

Tom, a VM emulates a system with some crappy hardware components, you cannot compare a VM with a real environment performance- and option-wise.

A VM will always be much slower, Virtual Machines are good for trying things out, that's their main purpose.

Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4194

I find no difficulty or speed problems with Linux in a VM Ozieo. I don't notice any slowness compared to a dedicated partition. I'm coding and compiling faster at home than I am at work on the servers. I can run anything and everything I was in the old days with a dedicated partition even my XFi works without issue in the VM. I guess if your PC is antiquated you might have slowness, but I'm quad core, 8gig ram and 3TB disk space in Raid. I can play games, alt tab and do stuff in Win7 and my VM works without a single hiccup. With a modern machine, I still don't believe Linux needs a dedicated partition. To me it's a hassle and a waste of physical disk space. Ozieo have you ever even used VMWare? VMWare is used heavily in test environments.

Ozieo · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 648

Yeah, I use(d) VMWare, no matter what famous video card your system has, VMWare emulates its own emulated graphics adapter which I have serious doubts you could play games on a VM, if you're talking about Sudoku or Mines or Cards games, than yes, I believe you.