I will second the basically good results with Win4Lin. I installed the new version this weekend without too much trouble. I've also been using Win4Lin 2.0 for about 9 months, and for business applications it's great. I can run Outlook under Linux which means I don't have to deal with the mail database format problem yet, which is nice. Most apps (Quicken 99, M$ Office, Acrobat Reader and full version, Framemaker, Corel Draw, Winzip) worked perfectly. I had some problems with minor Quicken 2001 so I didn't use it. NeTraverse was able to duplicate the problems, so maybe they're fixed. Also, be aware that any apps that wants to install system type DLLs, such as PC Anywhere, don't work. As for the kernel questions, Win4Lin works best if you're using a standard distribution kernel from one of the majors, such as RH or SuSE. In this case you just start using a new kernel instead from NeTraverse that simply replaces the one you have today. In case you've patched your own kernel, then you have to use their patches to rebuild your kernel with Win4Lin support. Right now some folks are having success with this for 3.0 and others are not. IMHO, not ready for primetime is Wine and Bochs. Very interesting, but not there yet. Hope this helps. Mark -----Original Message----- From: pwa@chmls20.mediaone.net [mailto:pwa@chmls20.mediaone.net]On Behalf Of Paul Abrahams Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 8:11 AM To: SuSE listserve Subject: Re: [SLE] The Big Changeover and Bochs. Geoff Bagley wrote:
A cheaper and better alternative is Win4Lin (www.netraverse.com). Be
sure to
get Version 3.0, which came out very recently. I think it costs about $70, maybe much cheaper from places like Linux Mall (I haven't checked). I've used Win4Lin for about nine months, with very good if not totally perfect results. In particular, I've not had problems running Quicken, TurboTax, or Word 2000, and the performance on my machine is probably 80% of native Windows. (With a faster startup time.) But it won't run some games that depend on DirectX. I made the original enquiry. Thanks for the replies.
The DOS applications I want to run (under LINUX) are Wordperfect 5.1, and Turbo Pascal 7.0.
FWIW, Win4Lin also supports DOS. Paul