[ale] Partially OT: moving apps from old to new PC's(non-Linux)

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Thu Apr 1 08:38:02 EST 2004


On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 21:43, Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:

> Take it one step further.  Load up Linux + VMware on the primary server
> (PDC, fileserver, whatever) and run the DOS app in a VMWare instance. 
> Good way to reuse hardware, and keep it secure.  The cool thing is
> you'll be able to restrict access to the app via IPTABLES, and back it
> up via native linux utils.  ;)
> 
> Jonathan
For that matter, try running the database as app under freedos in an
x-window. So far, nearly everything I have tried to run that way works
just fine.

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