Is it possible to run Windows programs on Mandrake 9.1 ???
If it's possible can you tell me how or point to some doc ???
*Best Regards,*
*/Jos� Carlos Silva/*
There are ways:
1. Wine - you need a hacker's mentality for this one. Most Wino's reckon that you should compile your own rather than use the rpm
that comes with your distro especially if you want printer support. Easier said than done in my experience. Wine is still
in development and probably always will be. I've got freecell (big deal!), Winamp (briefly and eratically), and Internet Explorer to work with it but that's all. From what I read on
Wine newsgroups and mailing lists, some people have had more success. There is a new .tar.gz build of Wine released every
10 minutes.
2. Crossover Office - supposed to run MS Office and some other stuff. I've never tried this because it's an offshoot of the Codeweavers Wine Project which has always given me grief and it's not free. Some people seem to like it though.
3. VMWare - by far the most effective that I've encountered - runs Windows inside Linux. There do seem to be issues however, it's picky about the Linux kernels it will work with and networking it to the Linux host is proving a real pig! (At least in my case.) VMWare is however *very* expensive.
4. Win4Lin - like VMware, it runs Windows within Linux. It's cheaper than VMware but I've heard it's not as good - some may think otherwise. I've never used it so I don't really know.
Hope this helps. A google search will turn up loads of info on all these.
Good luck.
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