Comments on: Virtualisation

By: Sid Roberts

Sid Roberts — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:45:49 +0000

But with XP/Vista/7 and OS X, you don’t need to — their default themes are OK. Ubuntu’s default theme looks really old. It has got better over the last several releases but it’s still behind every other OS in terms of style.

I’m toying with 9.04 at the moment and I particularly like “New Wave” which comes with 9.04 and, in my opinion, is much nicer than “Human”.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:18:42 +0000

I wonder about the “UI is still ugly” statement. With 3 clicks, Ubuntu 8.10 looked like this on my Desktop: http://dldw.de/tmp/index.php?file=i_Bildschirmfoto.jpg

Not ugly at all. You should really visit http://www.gnome-look.org, where you can find everything to style your linux as you like it: From basic Unix style, over Mac OS X style to Windows Vista style. And this all only 2 clicks away ;-)

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:06:10 +0000

I really like this.

By: Sid Roberts

Sid Roberts — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:44:57 +0000

It is Vista compatible — only the 32-bit version. I have the 64-bit version (for my 4GB of memory) — most Vista installs are 32-bit.

The bugs are really minor and it can be used without ever noticing them — little things like when a virtual window is moved quickly, the virtual OS’s desktop background can be seen where the virtual window was.

By: Pablothehat

Pablothehat — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:52:02 +0000

I have been using Netvibes for a few years now and I find it just a great way to use the pc.
I am still on XP and didn’t realise that VMWare wasn’t Visa compatible so thanks for the heads up on that.
I have a copy of Virtual Box but I haven’t experimented with it yet. You mentioned a couple of bug but you didn’t give any details.
I have use Linux in the past on VM but since my last pc died I haven’t had the time to resurrect them yet.
Sometime I guess.