From: kents@trajecta.com
Date: Tue May 08 2001 - 11:57:45 PDT
Anybody tried Win4Lin? http://www.netraverse.com/
These folks run Windows as a Linux application - you then run the Windows
application within this application. There's no emulation and Windows
applications cannot take the machine down. Very interesting.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lucas Gonze [mailto:lucas@worldos.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 1:02 PM
> Cc: FoRK@xent.com
> Subject: RE: It's IBM dummy
>
>
> > I run Linux on my high-end laptop with Win2000 Pro in
> VMWare. Easily
> > handles everything but high-end games (on the win32 side).
>
> very nice. I'm suspicious of anything that smells like
> emulation -- WINE was
> the last emulation hell I want to go through - but surviving
> a daily beating
> like this is high praise.
>
> Wonder how much I'd save on the electricity by shutting off
> the extra box...
>
>
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