Jim Dawson wrote:
>
> Win4Lin is faster, but supports only Win9x and has very
> limited networking support. (WINSOCK applications only.)
>
> vmware supports Win9x, NT, 2000, Linux, FreeBSD (with a
> little help), NetWare (albeit not very well), Solaris, and
> others. (the only OS I know of that isn't supported at all
> is BeOS) and has good networking support, but it is a lot
> slower than Win4Lin.
>
> vmware recently introduced vmware Express, which supports
> only Win9x and is supposed to be faster than the regular
> version, however I have never tried it.
>
> If you need to run only Win9x and don't need network support
> beyond Internet applications, Win4Lin is probabally your
> best bet. If you need to run NT, Win2K, etc. and/or need
> good networking support and don't mind a performance hit
> vmware is the way to go.
>
since i have a celeron 466, i probably won't run vmware on it. being
able to run win2000 though will be useful. does vmware run reasonably
on a fast machine, say athlon 1ghz?
aston
sydney, australia
