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[ILUG] VMware alternatives.

[ILUG] VMware alternatives.

Dale Dunlea daledunlea at commergy.com
Sun Nov 7 13:05:56 GMT 2004


> > 3. Make a Live CD that can boot my designer system. I can then demo 
> > this on my laptop, or indeed any other computer that happens to be 
> > lying around. Cons to this include the learning curve in building a 
> > Live CD, and also having to go out and get me a few 
> re-writeable CDs 
> > to make it less expensive to release incremental 
> improvements to the 
> > demo product.
> > 
> Does your product have requirements that aren't on a LiveCD? 
> Use a CD-R/W to find out ;)

The product requires gtkmm2.4, and some sound stuff that probably isn't
standard on a live CD. 

> remember, you can put an ext2 filesystem on a USB keyring 
> too. So if you had a live CD and a USB2 512M keyring, you'd 
> be sucking diesel. If you can guarantee the machine boots 
> from USB, there are a few distros that will run from a 
> keyring (Damn Small Linux, Feather I think, flonix has gone 
> closed binary).

I have access to a USB hard-drive, but for various reasons, I need to
keep it basically intact and it's currently a FAT file system. I could
probably invest in a pen drive, but I'd rather mess around with my
existing equipment first.

Regards
Dale.





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