OT: Fwd: New Product: Win4Lin Home, and Special Offer

[Matthew Carpenter]

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I read this to mean something akin to VMWare's Virtual Networking, where
VMWare allows you to create virtual network segments within your system
and determine which network(s) a virtual machine lives on.  This can
mean you run a VM which can *only* talk to your host system, or run
networking through NAT on your host system.

Although given what little I know about Win4lin, this seems a little
much, though.  Does Win4lin run windows apps like in a VM like VMWare or
along side Linux apps like Wine?

Is this like coLinux for Windows, where the Linux Kernel runs along-side
the Windows kernel?

Is this a better option than Wine or Crossover Office?  and why?

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
| On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 16:53, Ken Moffat wrote:
|
|>Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
|>
|>
|>>Those b*st*rds! I waited a few months to upgrade from a 2.4 to a 2.6
|>>kernel on my home computer because I needed to upgrade my Win4Lin to do
|>>so. So, last month or so, I shelled out the $90 for Win4lin 5. They were
|>>probably waiting for me before making the announcement. Still, it does
|>>as advertised. My wife gets to do banking, which is the only reason we
|>>have it. The product is solid and worth considering if you need to run a
|>>few Windows programs.
|>>
|>>
|>>
|>
|>Ths lack of windows networking and remote printing might be a problem
|>for many.
|>
|>Maybe I'm confused. What does the full version version do regarding
|>networking that lite does not? Here is the comparison from the web page:
|>
|>#
|>lite version: Winsock 2 Networking
|>
|>full version: Winsock 2 networking or VNET with virtual network card
|>and second IP address support for Microsoft networking
|
|
| Normal winsock does all normal stuff. Your browser and e-mail will work.
| I do not use VNET. If you are accessing remote shares in the Linux host
| via samba, they are available to win4lin, who is none-the-wiser and sees
| them as local files. VNET must be for special network situations,
| perhaps not running TCP/IP.
|
| If a remote printer is set up via samba and the normal linux printer
| queue, win2lin will see it. The remote printint is only if you expect
| windows to set up a printer interface on its own.
|
|
|>#
|>
|>I don't know what the added functionality does.
|>
|>ken
|>
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