Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 21st Mar 2007 16:40 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu Virtualization of operating systems used to be slow and hard to use. Advances such as the KQemu accelerator, VirtualBox, VMWare, Xen and of course the recent integration of KVM virtualization into the Linux kernel have helped out a lot though, especially on the server side, but for a normal user, virtualization could be somewhat clunky. Mac users have been able to run their Windows applications like this using Parallels Coherence, yet now other *nix users can too. Ordinary desktop or business users who require applications from another operating system can benefit from a seamless desktop.
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A lot easier on PC-BSD
by Liquidator on Wed 21st Mar 2007 21:30 UTC
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2007-03-04

I found it a lot easier to run applications such as Internet Explorer or Photoshop on PC-BSD, you just have to double-click the application wizard, click "Next" all the way, double-click the Photoshop icon and bang! Photoshop pops up, no headache, it just works ;)

RE: A lot easier on PC-BSD
by noamsml on Wed 21st Mar 2007 21:49 in reply to "A lot easier on PC-BSD"
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2005-07-09

I'm guessing PC-BSD has Wine installed by default. I'd like to note that Wine is OK for some apps, but is still a relatively flaky emulator.

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RE[2]: A lot easier on PC-BSD
by Liquidator on Wed 21st Mar 2007 21:54 in reply to "RE: A lot easier on PC-BSD"
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2007-03-04

No, PC-BSD doesn't come with WINE, but the software packages come with a copy of WINE, preconfigured and tested.

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RE: A lot easier on PC-BSD
by nzMM on Thu 22nd Mar 2007 01:58 in reply to "A lot easier on PC-BSD"
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2006-06-22

Which version of Photoshop? Work reasonably well?

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