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Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:25:08 GMT
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* David Floyd wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:

> In message of Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Hadron writes
>>Chris  writes:
>>
>>> Only one thing is holding me back from moving to Ubuntu - and that is
>>> that I want to keep using my email client, Turnpike.
>>> I've never found anything better in the twelve years I've been using
>>> Turnpike
>>> and it won't run under WINE because it's a Windows namespace shell
>>> extension - i.e. an extension of Windows Explorer.
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to run a fairly stripped down XP in a virtual
>>> machine?
>>
>>Run a full one.
>>
>>>
>>> Which would be the best virtualisation software for that?
>>
>>VMWare.
>>
> 
> Nobody has mentioned Virtual Box.  I get on with that better than 
> VMWare.
> And it's for the same reason - Turnpike.
> 
> Although I do run Thunderbird on Ubuntu.
> 
> David
> 

I cant imagine running a VM to run an email client, anyone got a cannon? 
I see a fly on the window.

-- 
David
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