On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, yan seiner wrote:
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> I still keep all of the RH niceties, without the sometimes funky
> behavior of patched kernels. After RH's glibc fiasco, I'm not sure I'd
> trust one of their kernels anyway ;-)
What glibc fiasco are you talking about and how does it relate to the
kernel? I'm humming along just nicely with glibc 2.2. With compat
libraries for glibc 2.1 installed, I am compatible with binaries linked
against either. By the way, I've never been able to recompile the kernel
by hand from the redhat sources (kernel-*-source.i386.rpm). It always
complains. I do builds from kernel.org. Getting the Reiserfs tools is
not a big deal, after configuring your kernel to support Resierfs. Will
Win4Lin support running on Reiserfs? A lot of distros are heading that
way. I see no reason for an average user not to use it. No more problems
with unclean ext2 systems, etc. That's what I'd use on a machine fro my
grandmother, for example.
As for Win4Lin being a useful, full-time tool, and not a transitional
program, I heartily agree. We just need single-window suppport, rather
than having to see a desktop window. Having windows apps draw on the X
desktop would be very cool and not that hard at all. Given some time, and
a little win32 api help, I bet one could hack VNC to export application
windows (I've seen a hack that can export a single window -- but here
we're talking about many windows: an application window and all it's
childre). A combination of an X client and a special video driver in
windows, communicating via some win4lin pipe, could do this easily. I
expect this in Win4Lin 4.0 for sure.
Michael
>
> --Yan
>
> Tim Fairchild wrote:
>
> > Let's ask, what is the purpose of a product like win4lin. What win4lin is
> > good for is a transitional product for people moving from windows to linux.
> >
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