I've been using win4lin for several months. It's a little tricky getting it set up, but certainly no worse than vmware. As with vmware, you have to have a licensed copy of windows (95 or 98, not nt/2000). It installs within the normal linux file system with the entire windows directory structure visible in linux, unlike vmware which, as I remember from the one time I tried it hides the windows in a single large file in linux. It's worked very well. I have used Quicken in it as well as Microsoft Office (not by choice, but for compatibility!) I haven't found any windows software that doesn't work, and the speed is only slightly below a normal windows partition. As soon as I figure out how to back up my laptop I'm considering repartitioning and removing the windows partition completely. Bernie Gardner On 30-Sep-00 Stewart Watson wrote:
Hi,
In the UK magazine Personal Computer World, it mentions Lin4Win from http://www.trelos.com as an alternative to Wine or VMWare for running Windows programmes.
The bane of my life is having to boot to Win98 to run Quicken as I have had no success with either Wine or VMWare.
Does anyone have any experience of Lin4Win they could share?
Thanks
Stu
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