[RTTY] With XP support ending...

[Lee]

This is the way I run Windows XP and Windows 7. I use Ubuntu Linux 13.10 as 
the host OS and run Windows in a VM (Virtual Machine) as a guest OS. I've even 
run DOS based WF1B this way. Works great. The only reason why I don't run 
fldigi is that I'm too lazy to build another interface. I prefer to run true 
FSK even though I've seen articles touting the benefits of AFSK.

David Cole <dave at nk7z.net> wrote ..
> That is like asking if my religion is better than your religion...  
> 
> If you just have to run XP, you could run Virtual Box, it will run ANY
> windows program that Windows runs, (any program), because it IS windows
> run in a virtual hardware box, running under Linux, and it is fast.  You
> actually have to install Windows to the virtual machine.  You must use
> Windows update to update Windows, via IE, it really is Windows running
> in a controlled box.  You can even for or five Windows box's this way at
> once.
> 
> This lets you keep the Windows Hard Drive as a file, so you just copy a
> large file as your backup.  Then you can run N1MM, (or any other program
> you want), under under Linux.  Best of both worlds...  
> 
> That way when, (not if), your Windows box destroys itself, you just copy
> the backup file from last night, (given that your entire windows machine
> is a file, you can automate your file copy to happen each night), and
> you have the machine EXACTLY as it was the night before.  Plus it's fun
> to watch the Windows machine explode inside it's Linux based window...
> The Linux machine keeps running, the Windows machine explodes, and is
> contained, and you just come from last night's backup.  I keep an image
> of my Windows machine for the 1st of every month, and one live each day.
> That way if my virtual Windows machine gets hit with a virus, I have a
> copy of a non-virused machine from any number of months ago, if it is
> not a virus, I come from the nightly backup.  
> 
> I decided to get off of the Windows merry-go-round last year when I saw
> the End Of Life coming for XP.
> 
> Plus, the Linux system runs about 2 to 3 X faster than the Windows
> system on the same hardware.  Linux really is the way to go if you can
> do it.  The installs are a LOT simpler than they used to be...  It is
> simpler than an XP install now.  Asks something like 5 or 6 questions,
> and it then downloads what it needs, and only what it needs from the
> net, does the install, and you are off.  If you use "testing", it is a
> rolling install, and you never have to install again, ever...
>