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

[Michael Hipp]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> 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?

It's comparable to VMware. It runs a copy of Windows installed inside an 
emulator and then you run apps in that copy of Windows.

Unlike VMware, it only runs Windows versions up to Win98. Which is 
probably fine as Win98 will run essentially any Win32 app.

The big disadvantage of Win4Lin is that it requires a specially patched 
kernel to run on essentially all the major distros. Which means once 
installed, no more kernel updates from your distro provider. I find this 
unacceptable.

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

Unlike Wine/Crossover Office, you are running the app in a true copy of 
Windows so compatibility issues are almost nonexistent.

In my experience, Crossover Office is useful only if you happen to need 
to run one of the very short list of apps that truly work right in it. 
Did I mention that it is a *very* short list. Otherwise it's bug city. 
Wine is even worse.

I use VMware or rdesktop to a W2k Server box.

Michael