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On Friday 03 August 2001 14:21, Jyry Kuukkanen wrote:
Hello
Sorry I can't really help you at all in this case, but I can tell you
you might have to go through rather painful times to get win4lin installed and running. Giving help from Netraverse can be rather annoying prosess as well.
Win4lin is a very good product ones you get it up and running. Very good product, indeed.
But Netravere's support is bad. Installing their stock RPM kernel for Suse 7.1 (2.4.0-4GB) goes fine, but for example Compaq Desktop series cd-rom interface doesn't really work with 7.1/2.4.0-4GB and patching any supported 2.4 kernel from kernel.org (2.4.3 or 2.4.4 or ...) might compile or not. And if it compiles, it either boots or not and ... ... ... ...
So good luck. As I mentioned, Netraverse support is *really* bad.
If only vmware's Exrpress was available for a try out, I might be able to suggest that, as they have a proper news server where users can openly discuss of installing problems and say out loud where the problems lies. Netraverse gives you "register and tell about your problem and we contact you" approach, which is not very nice nor quick or useful.
Not to start an argument but I just can't sit here and watch a company
really seems to be trying hit so hard. I have run Win4Lin and find it to be a very good package. I don't like that the kernel has to be patched, but it is a small price to pay for the performance you can get from Win4Lin.
As for their support, I think it is the best of any company I have ever had to deal with. They are:
1) Responsive (usually within the same day) 2) Hard working (I've given them some really tough problems) 3) Usually give good results. 4) And they FOLLOW-UP asking you what you thought of their support service.
I don't know of anyone who does (4) and it shows me that they are interested.
I have NO INTEREST WHATEVER in Netraverse. I am just a customer of one copy of Win4Lin and I currently have 1 tough problem on their list. I think
are excellent.
As for VMware, I would prefer to run it as I think it is a cleaner way to do things. However, I installed the 30 days trial last week and found it to be waaay too slow to work with. I never could get a double mouse-click to work and instead had to RMB click and then use the OPEN from the dialog popup. Also, just clicking on a button didn't seem to work right, and if you clicked on a button, it would depress but not release until you moved the mouse again. I found it totally unworkable and deleted it (and reported all
to VMWare in their followup of the evaluation)
All of the above was run on an 800mhz Athlon, with 512MB memory using Ultra SCSI160 harddrives... so I don't think hardware limitations were the
Actually with the number of SuSE users that seem to be using this product, I
wonder if SuSE would consider providing an already patched (if possible)
kernal as part of the standard distribution set.
I, and i'm sure many others, wouldn't mind having a try using win4lin but
can't afford to have a "dead" system from a problem caused in kernal
rebuilding.
my 2 cents
scsijon
ps I tried VMware but it's TOO COSTLY FOR WHAT IT DELIVERS, if it had
win2000 and ME in it yes but as is no.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Marshall"
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+ Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 08/03/01 14:43 +
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