Hi Have been using Win4Lin under SuSE (haven't installed it on my Gentoo machine yet) and am very happy. Most un-M$ like - Win98 is fast and stable. If it does crash the reboot is fast (about 3 x speed) and one doesn't have to go through the filesystem check.
As a doctor I make significant use of Endnote (a reference / bibliography management system that has a plug-in to M$ Word) for writing papers. Also allows me to use IE for the small but disturbing number of web sites which just won't play ball unless you are using Gates-ware. Win4Lin provides me with the ideal solution. Note that it won't do DirectX, so modern M$ games are a non-starter. There are some issues with the peripherals you can run from your Win4Lin session within Linux, even if Linux itself can use the peripheral. The essentials like mouse and printer are fine but things like scanners are more problematic. Check out the netraverse web site for more info, or contact them if you have a particular question - my experience of their customer support is very favourable. Finally the Vnet networking solution works well - I run samba to allow me to map my home docs directory within /home. I feel that for anyone (like me!) who needs to run a few "legacy" windoze applications, Win4Lin is an ideal solution. I have never run VMware, but my understanding is that it is rather different - it provides a full virtual PC that therefore can run any M$ OS within it (i.e. NT family, not just Win95/98/me). As this is a bigger undertaking it is reflected in performance and cost. It is a horses-for courses issue - if you are developing software to run on M$ OS or have very particular requirements then VMware may be the better choice but if you are in my boat, then I don't hesitate to recommend Win4Lin. Hope that helps. Regards Johan -- Dr Johan Waktare [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3 Holders Lane, Moseley, Birmingham, B13 8NL, UK Home tel / fax +44 (0)121 249 0984 Mobile +44 (0)780 193 1215 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
