>Thanks John for your thoughts.
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>Are you saying that you daily use the linux platform with VirtualBox, and within that have XP installed and use that for your needed daily VFP development?
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>Mel, I use linux daily and do all my development of VFP, PYTHON, JYTHON,PYLONS, MSSQL, POSTGRES using virtualbox. I have several customers that have different version of VFP, MSSQL. So I use the same setup that the customer has by turning on the correct versions in virtualbox. For example I have a client using Accountmate 6 with lots of mods connecting to MSSQL (I forget the version but it's old). That means I fire up XP with vfp6 and windows server 2000 with an old version of MSSQL. BTW I normally have most the data for the clients too.
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>There is little to no performance issues. I have 2TB's of disk space (that's two disks these days) and just recently upgraded to a i7core (early xmas present). If I need windows 7 I just turn it on, same for 'Vista', or any thing else windows has to offer. Like I said the ONLY issue I have discovered is the complete lack of firewire support and a few USB issues. With USB I couldn't get the EPAD to work and a windows CE device to work.
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>Just purchased two monitors too. Now that's cool because I have XP on one (or two monitors if I want) and SQL Enterprise running on the other monitor. I make a change in VFP and immediately see if it's working on the server. Debugging is even cooler.
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>Johnf


Seems like you are running everything in windows.

What is Linux for?