Dave,
I agree a lot with what you say below. I bought at the same time, and
actually never used the 1.0 version. I started with the 2.0 beta, then just
stayed with it when it became final. As I said in a post a month ago, the
idea of going between two major revisions in 5 months (Dec. 15th, I think,
for 2.0 and now 3.0 in April or may?) seems like marketing and not reality.
As for my 2c's worth, what I'm grappling with is whether I should
consider W4L an OS or an application? IF they want to view themselves as an
OS, then we will forever be on a treadmill, I think, keeping up with every
little change in Linux and never being sure what we're going to have to pay
NeTraverse for the privilege.
On the other hand, if I consider it an application, then I agree with
much of what's been said by other. It worked for 2.2.X, so it's my choice to
upgrade, only if I want/need compatibility with 2.4.X.
I doubt NeTraverse is listening, but if they were, I'd argue that they
are not one application, but many, and I'd be very happy to pay for new
capabilities, as long as they don't break what I already have. Today I don't
need 2.4.X, but I'll pay for that when I decide I need it, and not because
I'm being forced to. However, I do need better networking, and I need bug
fixes to Version 2.0. I'd like to see them continue to support Version 2.0,
putting in fixes they learn from later versions. I'd gladly pay a little
(say $10-$15) for the new networking driver as that would increase my
capabilities and not break my setup today.
On the other hand, since there are many problems with 2.0 that haven't
gotten fixed, and I haven't ever heard back from NeTraverse that they will
fix them (Quicken 2001 screens not displaying, Quicken downloads locking up
and corrupting databases, inability to use the client side of PC Anywhere so
I can control my PC at work, inability to run 2.0 longer than a few hours
without things locking up...) I'm very unlikely to pay a penny for 3.0
without assurance that all of those are fixed at a minimum.
Mark
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Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 8:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] My 2c's worth . .
At 06:07 PM 4/21/01 +0100, you wrote:
>I had checked out vmware and decided it was not viable due to slowness
This always got me too, till I did some testing on other systems. I found
that on low-end systems with relatively slow CPUs and little RAM, etc.,
VMware ran noticeably slower than Win4Lin 1.0, but the difference slimmed
down quite a lot with Win4Lin 2.0. As Netraverse adds more features to
Win4Lin to approach VMware's capability set, I believe the difference will
become negligible even on low-end systems. On medium- to high-end systems,
speed was never an issue.
I ended up using VMware at work because I needed seamless Netware
integration, which Win4Lin did not provide. At home I used Win4Lin till
recently, but now I find myself using VMware more and more. I'm not sure if
I'll upgrade to Win4Lin 3.0 because I too don't like the fact that I was
able to use the product for only a few months before needing to pay yet
again (I was a late 1.0 purchaser and got a free 2.0 upgrade within a
week). Many folks may not see any reason to upgrade to the 2.4.x series of
Linux kernels, but quite a lot do, and for many reasons, performance and
security issues both.
People will always buy what suits them. I like (and dislike) both VMware
and Win4Lin for different reasons, but I always hated having to forgo
kernel upgrades with Win4Lin, whereas with VMware, all I needed to do was
rerun the perl script to reconfigure the modules and get working again
painlessly and fast.
Each company has two different ways of attacking the problem, and each has
its own merits and downfalls. But one thing's for sure: Going with
Netraverse ultimately becomes more expensive than VMware because of having
to repurchase the software just because you upgrade your kernel.
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