Benjamin Scott wrote:
Can't help with the rest, but as far as Win4Lin goes, NeTraverse hasBack in early 2.6 days, I tried to get W4L running on my Debian box, and it was a total SNAFU. Seeing their download pages today, and the slightly modified descriptions, gave me hope (eg., "You must download this for a 2.6 kernel to work!"). I downloaded a stock 2.6.9 kernel from kernel.org (the latest for which Netraverse had kernel patches), patched it, compiled it... and lo! Worked like a champ. [Somehow, I didn't even need to make any changes to its configuration. All the config options were set correctly for my Knoppix install. Was this accomplished through the "Kernel .config support"?] Anyway, W4L fired right up, Quickbooks installed w/o a hitch, Gnome and Enlightenment are happy... the only thing I need to do now is get my internal wireless working by way of ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net).
switched to providing a generic binary kernel based on pristine sources plus
their own MKI patchkit. The theory is that this should work with "most" configurations, and the exceptions are likely to be for users advanced
enough to patch their own kernels. So Win4Lin is supposed to be
more-or-less distribution agnostic now.
As Jerry noted, it doesn't run W2K, but I don't think it ever will [though I'd love to be wrong]. VMWare could do that, but honestly, '98 is all I really want or need: it'll run the one or two 'doze applications I absolutely require, and is relatively lightweight. 15 second "restart" times are something most Windows users can only dream about.
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