On Monday 05 March 2001 08:21 pm, you wrote:
> I have installed win98 and Mandrake 7 on my computer,sometimes I want to
> run the two systems simultaneously,and switch between the two systems ,I
> wonder if there is such a tool.
I use Win4Lin at the house and I have used VMWare at the office. It
depends on what you expect to do with win98 while running it under LInux.
If you are looking for DirectX, forget it for a while. Win4Lin allows me
to run IE, Quickbooks, and MSOffice which is all I really need. I only
reboot if I want to play a MS game (which I haven't done since I finished
Vampire: The Masquerade). VMWare allows a little more configuration
options, but is also more expensive. As a computer professional, I am
always a litle leery when things like networking stacks "just work"
without configuration, but ... then again it does just work (under Win4Lin)
On the other end, Mandrake put out a Lin4Win distro which allowed you to
launch Linux from the Windows desktop. I am not sure if they could run
concurrently, but maybe someone from Mandrake could fill in a few blanks
about it?
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