On Thursday 28 March 2002 08:40 am, Jerry Feldman wrote:
One other way to bridge the gap is to use a light weight Virtual Machine such as Netraverse's Win4Lin. Win4Lin allows you to run Windows 9x as a Linux process. Since it runs as a Linux process with its directory tree in your home directory, it is easier to share resources, than using a dual boot or a heavy weight VM solution. http://www.netraverse.com/
I use Win4Lin and I'm extremely happy with it. I have no love for Microsoft, but there are still reasons I have to use Windows products: 1. MS Word is necessary if you have to import and export Word documents generated by other people whose systems you have no control over. 2. There will never be a usable tax program like TurboTax from the free software community. No free software writer will be motivated to update the program every year to cope with the latest forms and regs. I dearly wish that Intuit would come out with a Linux version, but like so many other MS sycophants, they show not the slightest interest in doing so. 3. Some websites work poorly or not at all under Konqueror. With Win4Lin I can switch almost seamlessly from Linux programs to those Windows programs that have no good Linux counterparts. Windows occupies one of my six KDE virtual screens; it takes just two mouse clicks to get from Linux to any Windows program. The fact that my Linux home directory can be made to appear as a Windows drive letter makes data transfer easy. There are programs such as those that use Direct X that don't run under Win4Lin, but those I can live without. Paul