Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

[Paul Huygen <pemhuygen@chello.nl>]

listmgr@san.rr.com wrote:

> You could also run vmware (http://www.vmware.com) on your machine, and just
> run outlook on top of that.

You *could* do that, because VMware is a sophisticated program that
seems to work very well. However, to continuously run an application
like Outlook, Vmware seems not very suitable. VMware shares the
processor cycles evenly between the virtual machines that it
supports. As a result, the Outlook application would use up half of the
processor time, although it does not do anything most of the time.

Win4lin (www.win4lin.com), a (commercial) program that also enables to run windows under
Linux, seems to be better suited for this type of work. In Win4lin,
the windows sub-process allocates processor time only when it really
needs it to do work.

I use Win4lin to solve a similar problem. I am addicted to the contact
manager ACT, that runs only under Windows (BTW, suggestions of
Linux programs that are similar to ACT are very welcome).

Paul Huygen