Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 16th Dec 2007 00:02 UTC
Apple and Linux are engaged in battle a battle to win over disgruntled Windows users. But who will win, and what will the consequences be for the loser? The most commonly held belief amongst Apple and Linux fanboys is that both factions are engaged in some kind of a war with Microsoft. The truth is that if you look at the market share figure for Windows, Mac and Linux, both Mac OS and all the Linux distros that have ever been released are dwarfed by Windows.
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I didn't know there is a seamless mode now, which indeed sounds very tempting. It isn't an alternative though, since the Apps i use need OpenGL support and are pretty performance and Memory intense.
Accelerated OpenGL and DirectX support is coming for VMs. QEMU and VirtualBox have began working on it--first to come is OpenGL. VMWare and Parallels are working on getting DirectX support thru OpenGL on *nix platforms.
VMWare already has experimental Direct3D 8 acceleration support in their Linux/Windows products. I played Need For Speed - Hot Pursuit 2 under it. Apart from several missing textures, it ran pretty smooth and a good sign for things to come.
Of course Need For Speed isn't a great example because it runs pretty well in Wine and Cedega already. But its one of the fewer games I have that utilizes Direct3D 8.x. However, games and apps that use OpenGL or rely on an older or newer DirectX API than 8.x don't work well or at all yet.
That said, I prefer Wine and my seamless terminal server over virtualization just on principle. Its required to have an extra copy of Windows (full) to virtualize the OS. Microsoft went one step further in Vista by requiring you to purchase the more expensive Business or Ultimate versions for *legal* VM use.
Edited 2007-12-16 18:01
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2006-06-21
How about QEMU or VirtualBox? They have kernel support and if you have a recent CPU it'll even have virtualization support. These mean near-native speed. You can even run apps in a "seamless" manner ie. show just the app you want, in a native Linux desktop window instead of the whole Windows desktop.