Hi, I've used both WINE and VMWare (1.0 - 1.2). Obviously there are merits for using either but these are my opinions... WINE would be the perfect scenario, just simply running the windows executables direct from linux. But it is still in an alpha state so each time a new release is made things get fixed, and others get broken. For example about 1-1.5 years ago a release was made which meant I could use MS Mail to get company email. 6 months later this broke, and is now working again! But on the plus side, things are moving along very fast now and more things are being fixed than broken. Just check the applications listed on the homepage and you can see a large number of apps and games are now being reported to work. VMWare is great from a software developers point of view. It allows you to set up multiple virtual machines. For example I could on my Linux workstation open 3 different VMWare sessions for Win3.x, Win95 and WinNT. I was developing software which needed to run perfectly on all three versions. Yes Win3.x is still used by quite a lot in the automation industry! By having the bridging turned on, and then setting up samba on the linux box I was able to share files between all three sessions. The downside of VMWare is memory usage. For WinNT I found you needed minimum of 72Mb to run at a decent speed. This is memory you have to literaly give up to it. Win95 you will need about 64Mb, and Win3.1 ran comfortable in 16. This can add up the more sessions you have active, but I would recommend you at least have a machine with 256Mb of memory and give 128Mb to WinNT. On the upside, everything works perfectly, and it's quite easy to setup to use the other side of a dualboot configuration. I haven't tried Win4Lin. But I (and I'm sure there are many more) would be very interested in seeing what you put together for your talk. RiKD Jerry Feldman wrote:
I am doing a talk next month to some IT professionals where I will be discussing running Windows applications under Linux. For the most part I will be discussing 3 approaches, WINE, Win4Lin, and VMWare. Each of these have different approaches. I will be demonstrating the Win4Lin appraoch which seems to be the best compromise. My intent is more to evangelize Linux (and other flavors of Unix). Most likely I will use SuSE 6.4 on a Compaq 1900 XL161. I would like to get some feedback from people who have experience with this, especially those with WINE experience. Also, if anyone has used other products, please let me know. -- Jerry Feldman Contractor, eInfrastructure Partner Engineering 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/
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