[Pdx-pm] Perl Development on Windows  DHMedley at aol.com
DHMedley at aol.com Thu Dec 30 19:28:26 CST 2004  >>Second, if
you are as wedded to *NIX as the other responders were, just buy
a copy of Virtual PC and load any particular flavor of *NIX you
are comfortable with.  I can vouch for Slackware 10, Novell
Linux Desktop ( preview ), and Gentoo working quite well with
it.   You have to use either 16 bit or 32 bit video -- there is
no 24.  >If you go this route, do it the other way around.
Windows running on Unix using vmware or some such.  You want the
less stable operating system running on the more stable one.
When Windows crashes you want it just taking down Windows, not
the whole system.  Then you don't lose all your work and you
don't have to wait for the whole machine to reboot.   I don't
enter into the "more stable" argument anymore as most of the
data both sides cite is very out-of-date.  As an example, NOT an
argument starter, the Linux comparison of kernel 2.6.x to
Windows 98 or code base 4.  Thi