On 26 Sep, 2000 - 12:39:29, Graeme Merrall wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:26:11PM +1100, Bill Hiley wrote:
>> For those of us poor souls who (occasionally of course) have to run a
>> Windows program - does anyone have any experience with 'Win4Lin' and can
>> offer any comparison with other products eg. Vmware, Wine etc
>
> I'm a hoppy user of Win4Lin. It is a bit of a drag with kernel patches and
> that sort of thing. Last time I looked a win4lin-v1 2.2.17 patch was not
> available. It's good if all you want to do is run Win98 or Win95 for using
> some apps - which is all I need it for.
> VMware is good if you need yo utilise more heavy duty features of windows
> of you need to emulate an entire machine or install another OS as Win4Lin
> only does Windows9x. iI also found VMware quite sluggish on my machine.
> Since I only need to use a few apps Win4Lin does me fine and it boots pretty
> damn fast. Th eprice is better to.
> My only problem with it is some wierd video problems but I can live with it.
you would not be referring to lack of display refresh in XFree86 V4.0 ?
I had this problem until a friend suggested setting the BackingStore
option in the config - which fixed the problem nicely.
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Cheers,
Jim.
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