On 07-May-2001 EagleIce wrote:
On Monday 07 May 2001 05:23, Graham Smith wrote:
There is one problem with Win4Lin that can and will cause problems. It requires patching of the kernel. At present Win4Lin 2.0 will not work with SuSE 7.1 (both 2.2.18 and the 2.4.x kernels). That is why I'm still stuck on SuSE 6.3 although at work I'm using it on SuSE 7.0 ( but is not as stable as my home system which could be caused by a bad CAB file).
That's what I was afraid of, lucky I didn't try as I got 7.1 here.
You can down load a trial version, but as the Kernel has to be patched you have to be reasonably committed to go thru the install.
Win4Lin 3.0 is due out this month which should support SuSE 7.1.
I just noticed that too, so I'll wait to give it a try untill then...:-)
Win4Lin only supports Windows 9x. Win4Lin allows Windows to run on much lower spec hardware and supposedly runs windows considerably faster. It is a good solution where you want to run Office type applications. Not all applications will run using Win4Lin.
If it can run Excel with reasonable speed it would be fine for me, I have to use Excel at work and it's impossible to get the workbooks *clean* when I open them in StarOffice or Gnumeric and then move them back to Excel.
Excel, Word and all other Office programs work well with win4lin and at about the same speed as native Win 98 from what I can tell. I use Excel a fair bit given all the macros I use and have not had time to look into the macros for staroffice.
Suggest you check out www.netraverse.com for details on Win4Lin 3.0 for further info.
BTW I have not tried Vmware. On my homebox (with 128RAM, 466Mhz) with Win98 in VmWare in KDE; it's rather slow, with W2k it's veeery slooow...:-/
Thats why I have kept with Win4Lin.
Cheers,
ei
Regards, Graham Smith ----------------------------------