Until Vanderpool and Pacifica are more widely deployed, it's a much tougher sell for individual users. Traditionally the great feature of VMWare (for me at least) was the ability to run legacy Windows apps in an OSS system, and no Wine is frequently not the answer to that conundrum. If I'm limited to OSS in my guests, then why not just run it on my host? There are cases where it is useful, i.e. testing environments etc, but it very much depends on your usage. I agree that WINE (or Crossover Office) is not the answer for a number of Windows apps. One possibility is Win4Lin. Win4Lin runs as a user
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:02:12 +0100
Stephen Boddy