Guess I'm Qualified. I've used 1.0 2.0 and 3.0 and intended to buy 4.0 soon (heavy discount for the upgrade right now)
Win4lin on does windows. 3.0 and earlier did 95/98 4.0 does ME and 2000 as well (also I believe some XP support not sure.) Overall other features in 4.0 make it worth the wait. (about a week maybe less) DirectX is it's only shortfall as of 3.0 it doesn't do it. So applications that run under DirectX don't work. Otherwise it's like having windows in a window. Compared to VMWare it's much faster, Much lighter in footprint and a lot cheaper. Full access sound, It's own IP number. All hardware gets recognized (even my cd burner but cdrecord is sooooo much easier) Screen res is limited of course to the res of your Linux box and as such is a tad fuzzier than windows native. 3.0 is limited to using 64 megs of ram but 4.0 goes up to 128 (shared ram) Boot time is faster than with VMware and waaaaaay faster than Windows native. Runs off of Ext3 Reiserfs and Ext2 (the only ones I've used) and doesn't need a special DOS partition. Follows symlinks. Setup is a bit tedious as first you do it as root then you do it as User. Still can't multi task windows. Shortfalls - No directX support. Each user has to create thier own Windows install (no shared access) Requires Windows. ScanDisk Norton and other Utilities won't run since there is no "true" disk partitions. Loads all the cab files onto your drive whether you want it to or not. Not good for systems with less than 128megs ram. James On 04 May 2002 14:34:39 +0900 Charles Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed that Win4Lin is now available on the Mandrake Club > download site. For one not familiar with the product, the > information on their web site regarding how it functions is > scanty. But I am guessing that it works something like VMWare, in > that you install Win4Lin, and then install Win98 or whatever using > installation disks. > > Has anyone used this product who is willing to briefly evaluate > it? How difficult was the install? How well did it function > afterwards? > > TIA, > > Chuck > > -- > > > Charles Muller > Toyo Gakuen University > > Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJK-English Dictionary > www.acmuller.net > > >
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