"Raymond S. Swaim" wrote:
>> Probably [Win4Lin] won't be [Open Source], but it would be nice if the Mandrake
>> folks included the Win4Lin hooks in the Mandrake kernel. I've tried to get both
>> parties talking, but no luck. For using Windows apps in a Linux business
>> environment, Win4Lin seems superior to VMware (and likely Plex86) due to the
>> way it is structured. Cheaper, too.
And it does tricks that neither of the above will do.
>> It would be nice for Mandrake to provide Win4Lin support "out-of-the-box".
> I second that motion. ;-)
And I third it!
The patches don;t work against an as-delivered Mandrakified kernel source set, I
don't want to lose Mandrake's performance and security tweaks, there is no
comprehensive list supplied with the modified kernel to allow one to pick and
choose which patches to use against a ``vanilla'' kernel, and the Win4Lin
changes are small. I think Mandrake's sales staff would go for it (pump up the
volume), and there is no direct compromise of the distribution's open-ness. It
would help Mandrake penetration into the business market if you could install
the distro, download the Win4Lin userland apps and be running everything in the
office from your Mandrake box within minutes.
--
If the hackers release the source [to Windows or MS-Office] into
the "wild", we're likely to see a similar situation to DeCSS[...]
-- The Dodger, on the Oct2000 Microsoft crack
How the hell am I going to get all that bloatware on the back of
a t-shirt?! -- nick_davison, in reply
