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Please feel free to reply off list if you feel this is off topic. W/ all the talk of codeweavers lately I was curious about peoples experience w/ win4lin on SuSE linux 7.2. I currently run a dual boot but don't much like havinfg to leave linux just to run a win app. Last night my daughter was working on a report for her 5th grade class, she muddled through w/ linux but I knew that she knew there was a win program that would have made her particular task so much easier. (ms Publisher) Thanks for your thoughts -- dh I've been awake: 1 hours 10 minutes Suse Linux 7.2 professional kernel 2.4.17, xFree86 4.2.0, kde 2.2.2
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Win4Lin is a Virtual Machine architecture that runs as a process under Linux. It allows you to run Windows9x (not NT). I have a license for 2.0, but I have not used it lately. The real advantage is that you are running Windows, and you can run virtually any Windows application. The disadvantage is that it is a virtual machine, and will run slower that native. Because Win4Lin runs under Linux, the Windows directory tree (as it is under Crossover Office) is built as a subdirectory of your home directory. Personally, I would hope that WINE (et. al. ) matures enough in the next year such that most Windows applications are usable under WINE. On 31 May 2002 at 8:01, dh wrote:
Please feel free to reply off list if you feel this is off topic.
W/ all the talk of codeweavers lately I was curious about peoples experience w/ win4lin on SuSE linux 7.2.
I currently run a dual boot but don't much like havinfg to leave linux just to run a win app.
Last night my daughter was working on a report for her 5th grade class, she muddled through w/ linux but I knew that she knew there was a win program that would have made her particular task so much easier. (ms Publisher)
Thanks for your thoughts
-- Jerry Feldman Enterprise Systems Group Hewlett-Packard Company 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 Marlboro, Ma. 01752 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I actually just published a review of both Codeweavers CrossOver Office and NeTraverse Win4Lin 4.0 at http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=119 . I can't give you an experience related to SuSE 7.2, but that should give you an overall experience of the products. HTH, Tim On Friday 31 May 2002 10:01 am, dh wrote:
Please feel free to reply off list if you feel this is off topic.
W/ all the talk of codeweavers lately I was curious about peoples experience w/ win4lin on SuSE linux 7.2.
I currently run a dual boot but don't much like havinfg to leave linux just to run a win app.
Last night my daughter was working on a report for her 5th grade class, she muddled through w/ linux but I knew that she knew there was a win program that would have made her particular task so much easier. (ms Publisher)
Thanks for your thoughts
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