-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 June 2004 11:01, Matt T. wrote:
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 21:50, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 04:00, Basil Chupin wrote:
The point here is: if it becomes necessary to boot with a second linux kernel in order to be able to use Win4Lin then Win4Lin have shot themselves in the foot because it is much easier to simply boot into a system running Windows. Right?
Actually, the idea is to use the Win4Lin enabled kernel as the kernel you normally use. Then there's no need to reboot at all when you run the package.
Yes, yes, that is what I have done all the time, and I was quite happy with it. Win4Lin is a great product, allowing me to fire up (which happens less and less) a windose app without having to reboot.
The big question for me is now if that can still be done with SuSE 9.1 without loosing functionality (as the win4lin kernel is a generic 2.6.x one and not the modified SuSE 2.6.x kernel).
I haven't upgraded to 9.1 yet, but on 9.0 I recompiled the SuSE kernel with the Win4Lin patches added. I *DO* think this is a major flaw in their marketing as it requires the user to be (much) more savy than the average Windows user. I have some friends that can't do much more than find the on/ off button and start their browser. I wish that SuSE would simply add the patches. It would help everybody. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAxdzAjeziQOokQnARAgKBAKCmtX0BsS/8sA4z3wz8iz3s4f2AbQCfcGbs MugG5WSaYNuinyO2wCpJxMo= =Haoc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----