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moriz · Jul 25, 2008, 02:33 PM // 14:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fril Estelin

Guys, stop the discussion on dual-booting, in just a few years it'll be complete history due to general hardware support for virtualisation. You can already as of today run both Linux and Windows at the same time using Xen. Let's call an end to this counter-productive discussion, it's not Linux vs. Windows, it's more about giving people the choice.

EDIT:

Well, yes you can, it's called virtualisation (or Virtual Machine Management). The hosted virtualisation is well-known from VMware, next-gen virtualisation is Linux-module KVM or native Xen (also very neat academic L4). And it'll allow you to do this (the 3D feature is Beryl, not native in Xen):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY8wOji7hIo

the issue is: is it really WORTHWHILE to run two OS's at the same time? for the life of me, i really can't see why you'd want to.

Fril Estelin · Jul 25, 2008, 02:40 PM // 14:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by moriz

the issue is: is it really WORTHWHILE to run two OS's at the same time? for the life of me, i really can't see why you'd want to.

Yes it is, you can run games in native Windows and do all the rest in native Linux, no need for tweaks (when hardware support will be generalised). Technically, it's nothing more than a more privileged kernel that switches between the other kernels (and other stuff of course...) when you use special keys. It costs you about 10 to 25% more boot time, and you have the best of both worlds (if it was me, we'd all run Mac OS X...).

/end of off-track comment

gelei · Jul 25, 2008, 02:52 PM // 14:52

It seems everyone forgot that virtual OSes aren't capable of running a game. You got lower performance than in Wine.

Btw it goes a bit off-topic, doesn't it?

Lord Sojar · Jul 26, 2008, 03:47 AM // 03:47

The human brain can actually "process" about 4000FPS. It is motion blur that makes things appear as natural movement to us.

Although, the standard FPS range that is optimal in games that lack motion blur technologies is around 60-90FPS, all the way to 120FPS. Above that is somewhat pointless, or at least to most users. Mind you, standard LCD monitors refresh at 60Hz, so...

The Linux environment using Wine is decent for some games. However, that depends on the card you are using as well. nVidia cards tend to function far better in the Linux environment then ATi cards, mainly because of driver support.