-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On February 13, 2004 10:53, Jason Hayes - HHC wrote: > Now what is your take on Win4Lin?
Win4Lin is quite fast and rather reliable. As it runs the whole OS it supports (pretty much) all the apps for that OS. WINE, on the other hand, only supports apps that use the parts of the win32 API that have been implemented in the WINE libs. it's all downhill for Win4Lin from there, however. you need a Windows license from MS to run it in Win4Lin. i'm not particularly in favour of that, and it increases the costs involved. running everything _in_ a window that pretends to be the screen is pretty lame. i prefer my windows to be rootless and to work with my window manager, thank you very much. alt-tab should just work, i shouldn't have to worry about which window my mouse is over (for instance) and finally, having a full blown Windows install should really be a last resort. why bother using a Free OS if you are just going to run closed source apps and, worse, a closed source OS? yes, sometimes we don't have the option because there are times when the only application that will do is a closed source application. in your case that's Dreamweaver and Fireworks. you noted that the GIMP may suffice; and as for Dreamweaver, well .... have you tried alternatives? do you really need that proprietary lock in software? i find your choice of Windows for web devel to be particularly puzzling. see... the biggest thing i like about doing web dev on Linux is how easy and convenient it is to have the RDBMs, Web Server, mod_* extensions and all the other tools running on the SAME machine that i'm developing on. edit a file, save, reload the page in the web browser, rince, repeat... with multiple desktops ()code on 2, browser on 1) the key strokes are: Ctrl-S, Alt-F1, F5, Alt-F2.... some of this is possible in Windows as well, but not nearly as conveniently or cleanly. which is probably why virtually all the Windows-based web developers i've known use one machine to devel on and view the results on a "server" somewhere else on the network. now, if you do your devel in Win4Lin you've just removed most of benefit of running Linux. what bullocks! as an interrum arrangement relying on closed software can be a way to make transition possible. but that's what it should be, transition. there are better ways to work in Linux and there is more Freedom to be had to boot. ok, rant mode off ;-) - -- Aaron J. Seigo while (!horse()); cart(); -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFALVdm1rcusafx20MRAp/aAJ9cjGU1CZhRU+WXmD1Tpz9BN2lx3ACeJdyd 8KXbjxTF469eQg4P3+GnsMY= =Khit -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
