Comments on: MS’ duplicitous “olive branch” to Linux is aimed at the backs of our collective skulls https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2009/07/25/ms-duplicitous-olive-branch-to-linux-is-aimed-at-the-backs-of-our-collective-skulls/ ... Because I don't watch enough hockey, drink enough beer, or eat enough bacon. Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.6 By: jthibeault https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2009/07/25/ms-duplicitous-olive-branch-to-linux-is-aimed-at-the-backs-of-our-collective-skulls/comment-page-1/#comment-1438 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:47:51 +0000 http://www.lousycanuck.ca/?p=1623#comment-1438 I can almost guarantee that by the time Google comes out with their OS, Picasa, Earth and Sketchup will run natively rather than using WINE as a compatibility layer. You’re right, that not doing so would place a great deal of egg squarely on their own faces, and Google is almost OCD about avoiding that. I wouldn’t be surprised, either, if they ported them entirely to QT or GTK, since there are libraries for both to run cross-platform under Windows and Mac that are free to redistribute.

]]> By: Dan J https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2009/07/25/ms-duplicitous-olive-branch-to-linux-is-aimed-at-the-backs-of-our-collective-skulls/comment-page-1/#comment-1437 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:04:26 +0000 http://www.lousycanuck.ca/?p=1623#comment-1437 I hope Microsoft is “running scared”. The more fearful they become of what Linux might do to their bottom line, the more mistakes they’ll make (not that they don’t have a problem with that already).

I honestly don’t get it when people run Windows-based host server, then have virtual Linux servers as guests. Why pay money for the host server software when the VMs are all free software? If you’re supporting a server that’s based in Linux, why run that virtual server in Windows? I do see the point to running a few virtual machines of one sort or another on a host system that might be Windows or whatever, but certainly not in a regular server environment.

I’ve been running a Vista VM on my home machine so that I can run Google Sketchup and Google Earth together on the same machine. As soon as Google releases a native Linux version of Sketchup, I won’t need the Vista VM any more. Speaking of which; I expect many of Google’s applications to have native Linux versions in the near future. They’re new operating system is Linux-based, and it would look pretty damned stupid if most of your applications can’t run natively on your own operating system. I hope they improve their Linux programming in general though. Google Earth for Windows runs better inside a Windows VM than the native Linux version does on the host machine.

Regarding virtual machines: I have 8GB of RAM in my host machine so that I can allocate 2GB to a virtual machine (or two) and still have everything run smoothly.

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