[KLUG Members] Some questions

[Adam Williams]

>Got some questions that I'd like to get answers to, if anybody knows for 
>sure.
>#1 Where can I get a coy of "virtual pc"?

? VMware at www.vmware.com or BOCHS (free) at
http://freshmeat.net/redir/bochs/838/url_homepage/

>#2 Having read on the Redhat site of how running RH linux saves $$$ over >standard unix, I am wondering if anybody knows of a site that I can get to 
>that would show the savings of running RH over winblows98?

Since Win9x came with your computer (effectively free),  so long as you
never upgrade the cost is the same = $0.

Want to upgrade?  Then the math is pretty simple.  What does the next
version of the Windows OS cost?

You could run a free office package like Star Office on either
platform.  RedHat doesn't really compare to 9x as you can't use 9x as a
mail server (to replace Exchange), a web server (to replace IIS),
etc...  That is where Microsoft products become very expensive.

Calculating TCO (total cost of ownership) is very difficult and depends
on where you have on-site IT staff or not.

>#3 Am planning on putting a firewire card and drive in to this winblows98 
>machine, wanting to put linux on the firewire drive. Is or would there be 
>any problems doing this?

I've heard of people doing this,  but beyond that I know nothing about
firewire.