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:
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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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