perhaps the vmware/wine people can take a clue from Mac On Linux. It
runs just fine in Linuxppc. I've naturally never used wine/vmware, but
from what you're saying, it sounds like a good lesson may be in order
for the vmware people. OTOH, it could architecture related...
Russell
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>From: Ed Centanni <ecentan1@tampabay.rr.com>
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Win4Lin and M$Office: followup rant
>Date: Sat, Jun 16, 2001, 11:20
>
> I've used VMWare to run Win98 on a very healthy (1.2 Ghz) machine and
> it's still a pig compared to running the foreign OS natively. Yes,
> Windows is more stable under VMWare. It takes a 600+Mhz machine to get
> adequate performance. VMWare will catch some hardware exceptions that
> Windows misses or handles improperly. You can "freeze" the windows OS
> state, save it to disk and restart the windows OS very rapidly (compared
> to rebooting) to exact the point you left it -- running applications and
> all. Gives you a sort of instant on/off capability. No more long boots
> or shutdowns or application starts since you can leave your Linux
> machine on 24/7 and just suspend and restore the windows OS. You'll
> probably still need to reboot it occasionally to allow windows to return
> to a stable internal state. (What a piece of garbage!)
>
> I haven't used Win4Lin yet but it is reported much faster than VMWare at
> the expense of some hardware and network support. Both of these are
> commercial product$.
>
> Searching in my vast underground caverns of links, I found an an open
> source project that performs the same functionality named Plex86
> http://www.plex86.org/ Reported, it can boot/run MSDOS, FreeDOS, Linux
> (under Linux) Win95, NT 4.0, QNX demo v4, and NetBSD( as guest and host
> OS). It's under heavy development and I don't know if it's far enough
> along to be usable.
>
> Personally, I think anyone is better off avoiding microsoft products
> whenever possible and minimizing their use if they can't be avoided.
>
> Ed.
>
>
>
> Paul M Foster wrote:
>>
>> 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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