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<p><strong>From Charles Hethcoat on Thu, 04 May 2000
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I was excited to find out about Win4Lin and went straight to their
web page for more details. There I read that they only work with
Windows 95 and 98. They explain why in their white paper, and the
reasoning is, well, reasonable. But I don't think I will be able to
use Win4Lin where I work. Here's why.
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My company sees to it that my computer runs NT. This was done
because NT is far more stable than 9X. Not perfect, but pretty
stable. But I would much prefer to use Linux, and I do have <A HREF="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</A>
installed on my computer. I boot it via a boot disk, and don't fool
with lilo.
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Since I don't have Windows 95, I can't use Win4Lin. Pity. I could
make good use of it. I wonder how many other people are in my
position?
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Charles Hethcoat
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Try VMware (<A HREF="http://www.vmware.com"
>http://www.vmware.com</A>) instead. It does
run a full hardware system emulation and can run
NT. It can even run a copy of Linux under Linux or
Linux under NT (though that seems like a horrible waste).
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You might also watch the free virtual machine project
(which is not ready for production time) called Plex86
(at <A HREF="http://www.freemware.org"
>http://www.freemware.org</A>). That's based on the
work of Kevin Lawton (Bochs) and is apparently now sponsored
by Mandrakesoft (<A HREF="http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en"
>http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en</A>).
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Of course there's still <A HREF="http://www.winehq.com/">WINE</A> (<A HREF="http://www.winehq.com"
>http://www.winehq.com</A>). That
will run some of your MS Windows applications natively under
Linux. There's also still the opportunity to access some
of your applications remotely through VNC. You'd run the
VNC server on one of your (other) NT systems and access it
via the Linux native VNC client (or the Java client, if you
really wanted to).
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