Peter Rundle wrote:
Terry,
Just checking applications for folks making the transistion.
Looking for apps/? that provide/emulate "ms windows" on Linux.
There is also Bochs which could loosely be described as a freeware version of VMWare.
You want QEMU - its Open Source, will happily run Windows XP, and is not unusably slow like Bochs is. Still not as fats as VMWare tho.
Not quite true as Bochs is an emulator that produces an x86 instruction set on any hardware platform where as VMWare is a pass through and thus will only work on x86.
Haven't checked on Bochs progress for a few months but it had made some big strides when I last looked. Major issue was that it's screen resolution wasn't suitable yet for the applications.
I've been watching wine for years and I feel that it's just never going to make it. At one stage I managed to get Word and Excel working under it but then they changed to the new system with the dosdevices directory and I haven't been able to get them working since.
Aye, Wine proper tends to change things from under you.
Crossover Office from Codeweavers on the other hand is much more reliable,and well worth checking out (better than VMWare for most purposes).
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