On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 15:33, Gary Hennigan wrote: > I noticed someone recommending Win4Lin in another thread. I use VMWare > on my workstation and I'd like to try something similar on my laptop, > but everyone knows VMWare is pretty resource-hungry and while my > laptop is loaded (2GHz P4, 1GB RAM) I'd prefer a lighter solution than > VMWare if there's one available. > > My main motivation for running Windoze are writing these "wonderful" > PowerPoint presentations that my management loves. To date I've been > dual booting to Win2k, but that's a pain and I'd much prefer something > that worked directly under Linux. The complication is that PowerPoint > presentations can be pretty intense, with movies showing simulation > results, and I'm curious how Win4Lin does. Anyone have any experience > with it? > > I'm running Debian 3.0. > > Gary You might check to see if Win4Lin supports a Win2k guest. I am back in the dark ages of Win32 computing, I use a NT4 guest with the latest VMware, it runs the few Win32 apps I need very well & I have far fewer resources than yours :) -- Greg C. Madden Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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