On Wednesday 09 June 2004 04:32 am, Matt T. wrote:
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 09:39, peter Nikolic wrote:
On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 16:25, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
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On Tuesday 08 June 2004 06:31, Matt T. wrote:
Or, just wait another year, and wine / crossover is there, or gimp, quanta etc... ;-) there is not much missing anymore!
I own crossover, and it works great for standard apps, but there is a *LOT* missing. And, yes, I've done the recent upgrade.
well i have never managed to get crossover to run so it got canned
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. I'd love to completely forget about Windows,
thats very easy to do i did it around 10 years ago ..
but it's not realistic, yet. Usining Win4Lin, I don't have to reboot to run the packages I need.
and any how there is always VMware if win4Lin dont do it for you personally they are both a waste of space .
yes, in an ideal world it shouldn't be necessary to put in so much effort just to run windows apps. But sometimes I cannot afford that luxury of not using some windows apps. (Besides doing some reverse engineering ;-)
If I have a limited time to do a job, and with the old win app I know I can do it in minutes, and the linux apps (I know) will take significantly more time to do the job, or more time than I have, than I got no choice. Tools like win4lin allow me to minimize the windose usage as much as possible.
As an example take photoshop and gimp. I can do, and I do, more and more in Gimp. But some things, such as text effects, are still just taking way too much time there, so I do them in Photoshop.
Now to make my life easier I still like to know if I can dare to use the generic win4lin 2.6.x kernels instead of the SuSE one, or if I will run into big problems. Can you help me with that?
Thanks, Matt
You can *ALWAYS* add a new kernel to your system without making the old one unusable. I have a 9.1 machine here and as soon as I got 9.1 installed, I switched over to using a vanilla 2.6.6 kernel. But the original kernel from SuSE is still there and I can (and have) booted it to compare things. So stop asking the question, and just do it. Get the win4lin kernel and install it alongside your normal kernel and see whether it works for you. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 06/09/04 07:43 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." - Leonardo Da Vinci