On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:33:14AM -0400, Herbert Graf wrote:
> Congrats on starting the transition. I spent years considering the
> transition. Dual booting worked, but was too inconvenient and time
> consuming. Then Dell had one of their $300 PCs with free shipping, add =
a
> KVM and that's the machine I'm currently typing on. I power up my
> windows machine when I need something specific but that's getting rarer
> and rarer. It's been about a week since I booted that machine...

No need for a KVM if you have a network on both machines. You can use
vnc or rdesktop to get access to your windows desktop from linux, or a be=
tter solution
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http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

It lets you treat your linux and windows machine as if they were one,
drag your mouse off one screen and it appears on the other. cut-n-paste
even works seamlessly between the two systems. If you share filesystems
too then it is really like working on a single machine that is both
linux and windows.=20

It is nicer than vnc because even graphics intensive or 3d (games,
modellers) apps work just fine since you are using the native graphics
hardware.

        John

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