Re: windows mobile on the N900
 

That reads like poetry! Poetry in VMotion.

It's my prejudice since about 1995 that anyone doing Linuxy stuff is more concerned with tweaking efficiency than completeness. An unrockable world image I developed at the same time as I developed the thumb rule "never expect something to be implemented just because it's in the man file".

Also, Windows 7 boot faster than XP, and didn't we already see a Windows XP tuber? If it was just Windows 95, then I guess we'll have to pi that estimate. Though, all estimates should be pied anyway, you knew this, right?

Re: windows mobile on the N900
 

It varies,
but speed helps as long as it does not cost stability.
(If as we need, stable and correct data throughput is mandatory)
We just moved some XP machines into Mandriva+vbox images
so we could get away from the virus/trojan issues
and keep legacy production software running in Xp
on brand new hard disks (wd10ears) that gives Xp fits
due to alignment issues. All a winning move it appears.

Xp actually seems quite a bit faster inside the vm,
and by making the network locally limited it seems not to
get bogged down by phoning the Redmond mothership
every few minutes.
And no syrupy antivirus stuff necessary either
- we just check stuff in the share folder using the linux clamav
(I know, not very good but hey it works for the ancient viruses we see).

So, in reflection running wincrap inside a vm might actually
improve the experience quite a bit if done properly.
(properly, improve and wincrap in the same sentence - ha):cool:

Re: windows mobile on the N900
 

Yes... Once I dabbled my fingers into virtualization with the work servers, I felt like I wanted that for everything, home, cell phone, door bell... ;) Unfortunately, not optimal when you actually want to use your hardware directly. But so many useful areas of applications, and so many advantages over time...

Re: windows mobile on the N900
 

WinMo on the N900. Hell yeah... if Maemo is gonna die due to lack of official support, might as well do it in style by being able to run everything from Android, to OS X, to Debian to Win95 to WinMo.

I'm personally holding out for BeOS.

Re: windows mobile on the N900
 

If I can get my relatives to tell me which basement I left my
OSI 1p
in maybe we could extract the code from that as well :D

But for sheer fun running Atari apps might be more interesting