On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Giaretta, DL (David) wrote:
> Anyone know much about User Mode Linux
> (http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/)
It does what it says on the web-site, I've run Mandrake on my RH machine
in a user-mode kernel, sharing the network and local disks (and tested
that our software runs). The speed is acceptable, but not as fast as a
native install.
It's reasonably easy to setup, provided you just pick up pre-built pieces,
and are not worried by ifconfig, masquerading and friends. I've no idea
how easy it is to do a proper install from CD, but clearly it's possible
as others have done it... Could be a easy(ish) free alternative to VMware.
The downside is that it's obviously no good for Windows, BSD, Solaris etc.
Introducing another topic see:
http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/press_releases/archive03/novell_suse.html
(simply: Novell aquire SuSE, with IBM in the shadows).
so another Linux distro enters a period of transistion...
Peter.
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