Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4600 mails)

["Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)" <hylton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:53:40 -0500
> "Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Monday 05 January 2004 12:48 pm, Gary wrote:
[snip]
> > The advantage of Wine is that it would not require a copy of Windows.
>
> Agreed. Let's put the 3 into perspective as to what they are:
> VMWare - Generalized virtual machine for running multiple operating
> systems simultaneously. 
> Win4Lin - A Linux based virtual machine that allows you to run a copy of
> Windows 9x concurrently with Linux. 
> WINE - a set of libraries and emulator where you can run many Windows
> programs. Software vendors can also use the libraries to port their
> products. 
>
> Each is different and fits different needs.
So being the 'freeloader' WINE is the better choice as it is Windows 
version forward and backward compatible ie XP, Longhorn, whatever in 
2006, 3.11, 9x, NT? Pity it is still ALPHA :(

I hope the next version of WINE supports Novell or that they give 
Win4Lin away in the boxed sets :)

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