[wplug] Win4Lin Qs

[Bill]

Elwin

I use win4lin and I think its friggin amazing!!  I couldnt get Visio to
build in wine so I got win4lin just for the purpose of running Visio at
work.  I run an old copy of win98 SE and it has never crashed, and it
takes all of a few seconds to boot.  

I havent used VMWare since the mid to late 90's, so I cant really
comment on how good there product is these days.  It was pretty crappy
back then, but it was of course an infant at the time.  I've heard its
pretty good these days.

I've tooled around with Wine a bit, but not enough to develop an opinion
of my own.  I've talked to a number of geeks, however that swear by it. 
They mostly use it to port games over...

  
On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 16:14, Elwin Green wrote:
> 
> --- Brian Medley <bpm-list-wplug at 4321.tv> wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 01:36:50AM -0400, Jason
> > Sopko wrote:
> > 
> > > begin  How many people are actually using Linux as
> > their desktop? 
> > > Judging by the mail headers, it seems that very
> > few people are.
> > 
> > I use linux full time.  I run win4lin for when I
> > want to run a MS program.
> > I use Mutt, but I do so from konsole window...
> > 
> 
> Okay, a batch of Qs:
> 
> 1. Has anyone else here tried win4lin? Or for that
> matter, VMWare or Crossover Office? Or does anyone
> even have a working installation of Wine?
> 
> 2. Has wplug ever done a session devoted to solutions
> for people who may want to make their Linux their
> primary/sole OS, but who cannot (yet?) leave Windows
> entirely?
> 
> 3. If the answer to 2 is "no", would anyone here be
> willing to make such a presentation? If the answer to
> 2 is "yes" - hmm....did anyone take *really good*
> notes? <g>
> 
> Determined to find the power,
> 
> E.
> 
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