Of course I don't really know, but I would guess that there are probably
more hours being spent on Wine than on either VMWare or Win4Lin because it
is a popular open source project.
If you want to try Wine, I would say that for the RPM crowd, the best way
to start is to go to
http://www.codeweavers.com and get their packaged version.
For debian, look at http://www.winehq.com and set your apt sources to what
is listed on the wine download page.
VMWare and Win4Lin run more aps because they are running Windows on your
machine.
If you have a windows machine on your network and just need to run a
windows application every now and then, you can use the free VNC server on
the windows machine and VNC client on the Linux machine to run any windows
program (but you will need to have at least 2 machines - with windows
installed and running on one of them - the windows machine runs the
program, and you get the screen display on your Linux box)
scott
Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:22:02PM -0400, edoc wrote:
>
> > What, please, is the advantage of Win4Lin (or the more pricey VMWare)
> > over Wine?
> >
>
> This is to the best of my knowledge, so feel free to correct me.
>
> WINE does not require a copy of Windows, and essentially replaces
> Windows. However, since it is an Open Source project, it doesn't have
> the constant programmer attention given to it that VMWare and Win4Lin
> get. (And they also require a copy of Windows.) As a result, it doesn't
> seamlessly support all Windows apps. In fact, Corel has had to do a lot
> of patching of it to get their (Windows) apps to run correctly under it.
>
> Paul
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