Stuck in Windoze cubeville? Pair up the VMWare Workstation 4 beta and RedHat 8.0, and you will be living in the fast lane! Install a FUN and EXCITING OS right on top of that boring old one, right in the middle of the cube farm! You can shut it down and hide it away from those prying corporate IS eyes with one click of the mouse. And there’s no need to wait – you can still run your Venereal Studio compile while Linux 8.0 installs in the background! An abtracted hardware layer that “works like magic”, including full network access with VMWare’s “bridged” ethernet layer, shiny new Gnome and KDE desktops, and best of all, no more dishpan hands! ‘Thanks, Marge!!!’:>
UPDATE: here’s a freaky thing – a snapshot of my Windows XP desktop running VMWare hosting Redhat 8 displaying gedit while XP runs Hummingbird and I am ssh’ing with Putty from XP to the VMWare-hosted RH8 and displaying gedit in XP via ssh X packets from RH8 over Putty.
Seriously, with VMWare beta 4, Windows XP as host and Redhat 8.0 as guest installed FLAWLESSLY, it was a total joy…
TRY IT!
