Win4Lin is faster, but supports only Win9x and has very
limited networking support. (WINSOCK applications only.)
vmware supports Win9x, NT, 2000, Linux, FreeBSD (with a
little help), NetWare (albeit not very well), Solaris, and
others. (the only OS I know of that isn't supported at all
is BeOS) and has good networking support, but it is a lot
slower than Win4Lin.
vmware recently introduced vmware Express, which supports
only Win9x and is supposed to be faster than the regular
version, however I have never tried it.
If you need to run only Win9x and don't need network support
beyond Internet applications, Win4Lin is probabally your
best bet. If you need to run NT, Win2K, etc. and/or need
good networking support and don't mind a performance hit
vmware is the way to go.
> Aston,
>
> Here's an review that compares and contrasts VMWare to
> Win4Lin:
>
> http://www.linuxworld.com/lw-2000-12/lw-12-penguin_2.html
>
> Bottom line, Win4Lin is just as capable, significantly
> faster, and much less expensive. I'm not happy about
having
> to patch the kernel myself (for Mandrake 7.2), but I bet
> they'll have one available soon enough.
>
> Miark
>
>
> > Has anyone tried vmware? i heard it's slightly slower,
> but how else
> > does it compare to win4lin? i'm particularly interested
> to know whether
> > it shares the peculiar problems with Win4Lin version 1.
> how does
> > version 2 compare to version 1?
> >
> > aston
> > sydney, australia
>
>
>
