Re: [opensuse] Installing openSUSE from Windows - new discussion

On Sunday 17 June 2007 09:39, G T Smith wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Sunday 17 June 2007 01:13, G T Smith wrote:
...

However, as another poster pointed out one is leaving the Linux side
fully open to Windows (in)security...

I'm pretty doubtful about that. In all likelihood, the black-hats would
have to write exploits specifically for this combination, which they
would not do until it came to be in relatively widespread use.


However, I took a quick look at the NTFS-3G site, and I noticed
that it said FUSE was required. ...

That probably is a show stopper.. there probably could be a work
round (e.g. a windows exe that mounts an appropriate image) but this
then gets all rather involved again. Rather depends how many hoops
one wants to jump through to get something to work...

...

Simple or complex, I don't think it would go beyond being a
curiosity for me. It would still be a dual-boot solution, and I
don't need that—I require concurrent access, which is why I use
VMware.

Likewise on former, if I need to do stuff in Linux and Windows at the
same time (which is rare), booting into Windows and using Cygwin to
create an X session to another box works for me...

Well, Cygwin (<http://cygwin.com/>) is one of the first things I put on
every Windows installation I use, and that includes the one running
under VMware under Linux. I tend to have had little use for the
Cygwin/X (<http://x.cygwin.com/>).


The OP suggested this as an option for new users so that would not
need to repartition their hard drive on installing. I am not too sure
that this idea would be a good initial offering for a newbie ...

If the technical issues could be solved, my hunch is that it would prove
a better transitional alternative than one of the so-called "Live"
CDs / DVDs.

Probably even better would be a VMware Server appliance with a Linux
image all ready to go. Has anyone built one of these, yet?

Either way, most everyone with a system built (or upgraded) within the
past few years has enough disk space for one of these solutions. Having
enough RAM to efficiently use a concurrent / virtualization-based
approach (rather than a dual-boot approach) is another question. 2 GB
is enough, but I think that's still a lot for most casual Windows
installations.


Randall Schulz
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