In a message dated: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 10:45:02 EDT
Jerry Feldman said:
>This is a good topic. I am doing a talk to the IBM Share group in July 25th. P
>art of my introduction is a short set of bullets on why Linux. I am also prese
>nting running Windows applicaitons using Win4Lin and discussing some of the pr
>os and cons of WINE, Win4Lin, VMWare and FreeVM. In any case, I'mm just lookin
>g for a few ideas to add to my presentation. I'll be making a similar presenta
>tion to the BLU on July 19th.
Here are some tidbits, this is not an exhaustive list:
VMWare: - Hardware emulation, therefore slow
- Good for when you need to deal with multiple OSes
on one system simultaneously (Linux,NT,98)
- No Kernel mods necessary
- Great if you want to try out several versions of
Linux without compromising your "production"
system
- Requires OS media you wish use to install
Win4Lin: - Software emulation, therefore fast
- requires kernel mods
- limited to Win98
- good if you only need access to a few MS Apps
- Requires OS media you wish use to install
Wine: - Provides API level compatibility with MS function
calls
- Limited to running Windows Apps
- Under development, may or may not be stable at any
given time
- Does not require Windows media
HTH.
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Seeya,
Paul
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