Folks, This is not a commercial endorsement. I just installed Win4Lin, the product that lets you run Windows under Linux, and, for those occasions when you need Windows, it's very nice. Performance is decent, and there are only a few enhancements needed: 1) Max memory supported for Windows is 64 MB 2) Only supports serial, parallel, and virtual NIC (no scanners, USB) 3) No DirectX yet They're working on adding those goodies. But I can run Photo-Paint, TurboTax, some Windows-based Bible software packages, ... all without multibooting. At $80.00, that's not a bad price to pay. --Skip
On 28 Mar 2002, at 7:31, Skip Gaede wrote:
Folks,
<snip> Granted, I haven't used wine in quite some time, nor do I use the windows products you mentioned, but doesn't wine support them? Though, I remember wine being not fun to setup, so a "plug-and- play" win emu product is cool James KB1FJQ
At $80.00, that's not a bad price to pay.
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On Thursday 28 March 2002 08:29 am, you wrote:
On 28 Mar 2002, at 7:31, Skip Gaede wrote:
Folks,
<snip>
Granted, I haven't used wine in quite some time, nor do I use the windows products you mentioned, but doesn't wine support them?
Though, I remember wine being not fun to setup, so a "plug-and- play" win emu product is cool
James KB1FJQ I looked into buying Photo-Paint for Linux, and as I recall, they had a munged version of wine for their product. Not only that, they had a different munged version of wine to support their latest version of Corel Office (whatever it's called).
This version is being supplied to the government, and they have an agreement with Mandrake as well. The web site is http://www.netraverse.com --Skip
Skip, That's $80 w/o a windows license. Right? Wes Skip Gaede wrote:
Folks,
This is not a commercial endorsement. I just installed Win4Lin, the product that lets you run Windows under Linux, and, for those occasions when you need Windows, it's very nice. Performance is decent, and there are only a few enhancements needed:
1) Max memory supported for Windows is 64 MB 2) Only supports serial, parallel, and virtual NIC (no scanners, USB) 3) No DirectX yet
They're working on adding those goodies. But I can run Photo-Paint, TurboTax, some Windows-based Bible software packages, ... all without multibooting.
At $80.00, that's not a bad price to pay.
--Skip _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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