Re: [OT] Call to arms...so to speak
New version of Win4lin is capable of running Win 2003 and XP. I do not
know how exactly the above is achieved. All I remeber is that it runs
outside of kernel and will run on a whole range of linux platforms
including Debian). For more info google for win4lin's home page.
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 14:04 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 February 2005 11:57, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> >On Monday 21 February 2005 18:36, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> >> I am just wondering where Win4Lin fits into the batch.
> >
> >It doesn't. I contacted Netraverse's sales department several times
> > to ask for information, but they never bothered to reply until I
> > wrote about my experiences on Slashdot.
> >
> Chuckle... Its amazing how often a comment on /. will be corrected by
> somebody connected with the thing or company being panned.
>
> But like you Kirk, I'd be a lot more concerned with the apparent lack
> of interest in sales support as thats almost always a good indicator
> of the level of the after the sale support you will get, in this case
> zilch, bet on it.
>
> >In my opinion, they're a company with a dead-end product that they
> > no longer care about. Their opinion may differ, of course, but the
> > way that (don't) treat potential customers says a lot to me.
> >
> >I'd be *much* more likely to play with the new Kqemu accelerator
> > module that virtualizes x86 code rather than emulating it, for
> > supposed 5x-10x increases in Qemu speed. It's basically in the
> > VMWare ballpark now.
>
> Interesting. Could I use it to run thor on a linux x86 box? Or is
> this a reverse thing, that runs x86 code on moto stuff?
>
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