HOW TO: Run Other OSes On Your PC

[Jorge]

This tutorial explains how to make any x86 Operating System run on the newly released VMware Player with the least amount of hassle. Using the method explained here, you could be running Mandriva Linux 2006 from your own Windows XP box in 15 minutes.

Read the complete article (http://www.zeropaid.com/news/6035/HOW+TO%3A+Run+Other+OSes+On+Your+PC/)

[nukehella]

I'm VMware(not player) with Fedora -it's pretty cool.I tried to add Vista into the mix but I hit a snag and haven't gotten back to it yet.

[kokanezub]

i wonder did anyone get a vista crack for filesharing i remember reading u cant file share with it

[Theinfamousone]

I'm sure you can

[Lofty]

Of course you can run file-sharing apps on Vista. How would it even know you were running one? Unless they blacklisted specifc apps, but that's pretty far-fetched!

[ducttapeBigSexy]

I think it was that some apps weren't compatible with it yet - but, then again, Vista is still in beta stages - are you really going to be doing that much file sharing on it?

[teto]

It's not farfetched! DRM is the process of white-listing certain apps, and black-listing every single other program, so that only one operating system with only one set of programs authorized by Microsoft will run on a certain machine. To protect you from hurting yourself of course, for a small mandatory subscription fee.

I dunno if Vista does that though. Vista is pretty much what happened when the Longhorn project was undermined and collapsed due to the incredible amount of bad code, shoddy work, and bugs in it. So they were like, "Oh sh-- we gotta have an operating system ready by deadline. Grab the duct tape!" Of course someone would say, "Won't we lose money writing bad code like this?" but the answer is, "Nah, people pay for our program no matter what's wrong with it, because we made it so they can't play games or write documents without it."

Gotta love monopolies... guaranteed sales... good news is Vista is probably going to be a hacker's paradise, and about as locked down by DRM as the Exxon/Mobil company is an honest business.