Re: Re-inventing the wheel...

[Calum Morrell <calum@xxxxxxx>]

well, the answer is yes, of course you can! You stick it in a virtual
machine [i.e. your choice of windows physically runs on Linux thinking
it has the machine to itself]. You may not like the way it can do it,
but it can.

I don't know about the ACE servers, but unless they provide some form of
wonder functionality - what's wrong with apache for web, sendmail and
fetchmail for smtp and pop4/imap. You've got dns, dhcp, gateway, router,
http, ftp, pop2/3, imap, smtp, snmp, file sharing, print sharing, chap,
slip, pap, video conferencing, talk, irc, news, da da da da da da .. and
then some .. all built in and easy to setup and manage.

As with my brief exchange with Nigel, WINE is also an option for running
windows apps, its not quite as stable as vm products but it doesn't
require an installation of windows on the machine as it provides
equivalent library files. You simply install the package as you would
under Windows, some work some don't.


Calum

Mark McCall wrote:
>
> This is all academic.
>
> Here's the bottom line....
>
> Can I run all of the following on a Linux box....
>
> HomeSeer
> HomeWatcher
> HomeVision
> Comfort Web Interface
> ACE Server
> ACE Mail Server
> ACE TTS
> WebCam32
>
> The answer is no.  Therefore (FOR ME) Linux is not an option.
>
> M.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Calum Morrell" <calum@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 3:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re-inventing the wheel...
>
> > > expensive- how much is Win2k, BTW?
> > >
> >
> > off the top of my head
> >
> > workstation around £200
> > server around £600 to several thousand depending on version
> >
> > I believe there is a cross platform upgrade from 98 for around
£90,
> > about the same as from NT3.51 or NT4
> >
> >
> > Calum
> >
> >
> >
>
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