[ubuntu-us-nm] Random Questions

[Kiernan Holland]

Something to say about sun's (innotek) virtualbox  and WINE (Wine Is Not an
Emulator):

* both are in open source
* both use the native intel instruction set, so there is no slowdown from
chip emulation, if used on an intel chip. However if you run either on say a
PowerPC Mac, youll need a Intel chip emulator, which will make things so
slow it will be unbearable. The Mac should be intel based.

Virtualbox is in development, so may not be as nice as parallels or vmware's
fusion, but it's managed by sun now, so likely it will get developed more
aggressively. Virtualbox like other "hypervisors" (which use a feature of
new intel chips to box off the guest  operating system from the host
operating system, so that one can't interfere with the other (unless
permitted to). Also with these "hypervisors" you can run multiple OS's at
the same time in the same environment. Virtualbox comes on Mac and Windows,
as well as Linux. So you can run XP in Linux, Linux on Mac, or maybe OSX on
Windows (I'd wonder if someone has done it).

WINE does not require windows to run windows programs, it wraps a guest
windows program in a environment that looks like windows, but is really
WINE. WINE translates Windows API calls into linux calls and in other cases
implements the features linux lacks. It is is either slower or faster than
windows depending on the application. Not all applications run in wine, but
those that do, you need never install again as you can backup the installs,
just as you can backup "disk images" in virtual box.




PS-
FYI, for the more techincal guys out there..  many websites run on linux
now, because of the inexpensive setups using hypervisors to create virtual
dedicated servers for clients. If you want a cheap dedicated server, you can
get for advanced payment of about 360 dollars a years worth of virtual
dedicated service from godaddy (600 dollars if you buy two years). That's
where my website www.chann3lz.com is hosted.  There is a 500GB bandwidth
limit, and they give you about 10GB of disk space, but you have to manage it
yourself. And a nice effect of it is you get secure shell access to the VDS,
ability to setup user accounts, and assign multiple domain names to the same
server. I'd probably go with a cheaper server, but it seems the virtual
servers are run something like 8 VDS's to a quad core (XEON?) on a fast
Internet line, so it's worth it. But if you want to start your own web
business, good luck, or just want to take advantage of a fast line, linux is
number 1 for web work.
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