On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 09:12, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:12:49 -0500 Charles
wrote: Do you like Win4Lin? I currently run CrossoverOffice.. I was wondering which people feel is better... That depends on your personal needs: When using WINE and CrossoverOffice, you are running the Windows applications on Linux as if they were native Linux apps. The apps think they are running under Windows. Unfortunately, not all Windows apps work under WINE of cxoffice. In general, WINE's window directories are normally allocated in your home directory (or any other Linux native directory tree).
Win4Lin is a virtual machine that runs under Linux. Under Win4Lin you are running a full blown copy of Windows 9x. The advantage is that Win4Lin can run nearly all Windows9x apps. However, you will take a performance hit. In general, Win4Lin's files are allocated similar to WINE, so you can easily access the files from Linux. Win4Lin costs a bit more than CrossoverOffice.
VMWare is a full blown virtual machine system, and can run many different operating systems concurrently, such as Windows 2000, Windows 9x, Linux, FreeBSD. Other than the cost and performance issues, VMWare encapsulates each OS, such that they do not share any disk space. VMWare is expensive.
- -- Jerry Feldman
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Ohhh Ok.. :) I wasnt completely sure what it was.. :) The site is a bit odd in the way they talk about it.. Thanks for clearing it up for me... --Charles