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Re: Debian GNU/LInux 3.0 - Win4Lin 4.0



Bob Nielsen said:

> 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.

yeah, I don't reccomend VMWare for any serious use without 512MB of ram.
And that is running with 1 virtual machine with 96MB of ram allocated to
it. 2 virtual machines is possible but things slow down somewhat. 256MB
of system ram is barely usable in my opinion with a virtual machine that
has 96MB of ram allocated to it(for me anything under 96MB is unusable)

it is quite entertaining to see 4 virtual machines running at the
same time on my afterstep desktop though! 5 OSs on 1 cpu!(1gb ram)

nate





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