Re: Debian GNU/LInux 3.0 - Win4Lin 4.0
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:56:58PM -0800, nate wrote:
> fritz said:
> > Hello world,
> >
> > using Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, which works great, we have to use one
> > business-application which is only available as Windows-programm. Trying
> > wine and Cross-Over , both programms are unable to run our application,
> > we are now testing Win4Lin 4.0. Unfortunately "netraverse" does not
> > support Debian distributions. Therefor I am unable to install Win4Lin
> > 4.0.
>
>
> you can try VMWare too. it works wonderfully under debian 2.1, 2.2
> and 3.0. I don't think it is officially supported but I have never
> had a single issue with it. Vmware also gives many other nice
> benefits such as being able to "undo" the virtual machine, or
> "rollback" the virtual machine(sort of like snapshotting). and its
> the most stable app I've ever used..
>
> i have never tried win4lin but have been using vmware since it first
> came out a bit over 2 years ago? maybe almost 3 now ..
I've used both. VMware ran pathetically slow on a K6-350 with 128 MB,
while Win4Lin was at least as fast as running it natively. However,
not all apps run with Win4Lin and I didn't find anything I couldn't use
with VMware. I'm sure with a faster machine (and a lot of memory,
which is dirt-cheap right now) VMware would be satisfactory.
Netraverse doesn't officially support Debian, but has some "unofficial"
.deb files on their web site (you need to register to access them).
You will also need to patch the kernel source and recompile.
Bob
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