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[Leon Goldstein]

I have been playing with Linux Mint 17.3 and OpenSuSE Tumbleweed and 
find they meet my needs.  I am a lot more comfortable with these 
Linuces, and probably because I have enough prior experience to know the 
ropes.  Granted, I do not have much interest in games, although I have 
Microsoft Flight Simulator on a Windows machine I maintain solely for 
it, and to prepare my income taxes once a year.

I will be looking further into virtual machines for one reason:  I have 
this obsessive need to use the ancient Linux WordPerfect 8.1 I salvaged 
from Corel Linux (Debian) and managed to install on OpenLinux 2.4 and 
3.0.  XWP8.1 is still usable on current OpenSuse releases, but can no 
longer print, both owing to some CUPS incompatibility and the simple 
fact that printers these days no longer have a parallel port interface.
So, I will want to install and run a XWP8.1-friendly Linux in a VM so I 
can continue to use my favorite word processor.


On 04/01/2016 11:46 AM, Lonni J Friedman via Linux-users wrote:
> Virtualization isn't even as hot as it once was.  Containers are the
> new hotness, as they have a far smaller resource footprint for many
> use cases.  Virtualization certainly has its use cases (just look at
> AWS), but its not the solution to everything in the server space as it
> was ~5 years ago.
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 8:43 AM, Man-wai Chang via Linux-users
> <linux-users at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>> On 1/04/2016 11:32 PM, Ken Moffat via Linux-users wrote:
>>> Does anyone else feel that LInux has lost it's luster? (Not in the
>>> server area but for any possible mainstream desktop usage.)
>>
>> The current Linux focus is definitely more about server setup and
>> virtualization!
>>
>>
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Leon A. Goldstein
System L2
OpenSuSE 13.1