On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 13:39 -0700, John Meacham wrote:
> 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, 

I extensively use VNC, and both machines have VNC, however VNC is no
substitute for a KVM IMHO. A KVM like the one I have allows you to
switch machines by tapping scroll lock twice, much quicker then even
VNC. Aside from that you avoid the issues of doing multimedia stuff on
both machines.

> or a better solution
> is 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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.

Unfortunately, and correct me if I'm wrong, but that requires two
monitors. I barely have room for one monitor on my desk, never mind two.

TTYL

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