Graham Smith tapped away at the keyboard with:
On 31-Dec-2000 W.D.McKinney wrote:
Greetings & Happy New Year,
I need MS 98 for some business issues, and I wondering what the best app is now for us folks running SuSE 7.0 ? I read that at
http://www.linuxworld.com/lw-2000-12/lw-12-penguin_2.html
and wonder if any SuSE 7.0 users have gotten Win4Lin to run under SuSE 7.0
Netraverse has not patched the SuSE 7.0 Kernel for Win4Lin. This also stands for most of the new distributions not using a generic kernel. I beleive youneed to install a generic kernel to get it to work. Check there mailing list as I know some answers have been posted. Unfortunately I don't have access to my main E-Mail archive at the moment.
I have Win4Lin running under 6.4 after some manual jiggery-pokery on the kernel patch as Win4Lin only supports SuSE kernels up to 6.3. Applying the patch by hand may be daunting to non-programmers, but I haven't been one of those for nearly 25 years. Unfortunately, Win4Lin appears to have a conflict with pgp; /usr/bin/charconv. I had to remove PGP prior to installing Win4Lin, and after the Win4Lin setup re-installed PGP which seemed to work -- until I tried to generate some keys. I now have the "choice" of doing without one of the packages. Their tech support has tried to help, including a suggestion to obtain an earlier build of PGP which doesn't appear to conflict.
How does it really compare as the Win4Lin support doesn't even list 7.0 ?
I think they have been putting all their resourses into releasing Version 2.0.
I hope so.
I have been using Win4Lin for quite a while now and have not had a problem but I'm still using SuSE 6.3. I patched my own kernel without any problems as I have modified the SuSE kernel considerably.
For MS business applications I have not had a crash and it appears to work as fast as the generic Win 98. I have it working with only 24Meg of Ram allocated and as I said before have not had a problem. Win4Lin works quite well over NFS connected drives. What else can I say but it works well.
Except no support for serial devices or most other hardware except the parallel port. The serial support stuff is a priority from my perspective, especially if they manage to provide a hook for external processes to watch what's going through the port...
Check out Win4Lin mailing list Win4Lin-users@lists.netraverse.com https://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users
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