It essentially turns W95/W98 into another app running under Linux.
After logging in to your Linux user account, you enter "win &" in an X
terminal and Windows pops up in its own window. You run Windows just as
you abnormally would. :-) Windows is actually working but within a
memory space that Linux/Win4Lin sets aside for it and any access to the
hardware is performed through Linux. This is my understanding. My
system has 128M of ram but Windows thinks there is only 32M.
I have installed Office95 without a problem. Word97 works also. Sorry,
I haven't bought any Microsoft software since then. Jonathan pointed
out some of the limitations in an earlier post.
-Robert
Patrick wrote:
>
> Windows for Linux? What is this an emulator? Is it stable? Does it run
> the MS office suite?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul M Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
> To: <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 11:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Win4Lin and M$Office: followup rant
>
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:26:09PM -0400, Robert Haeckl wrote:
> >
> > > Legacy M$ apps (meaning Office95/Office97) work well in Win4Lin.
> >
> > Question: supposedly under VMWare, Windows apps run more stably (fewer
> > crashes). Would you say the same is true for Windows apps running
> > Win4Lin? I'm thinking of replacing my wife's Windows with a SuSE system
> > running Win4Lin, and she's a power user. She _kills_ her system
> > routinely. It would help if I could say that her Windows apps wouldn't
> > crash as much (or Windows itself, for that matter).
> >
> > Paul
> >
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