Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 2:05 am, Grant wrote: I've got to add that I use Win4Lin and I love it. - Grant So do I - it's the only win98 that I have ever had as a stable install. It does very much depend, though, on which windows version you want to run, what windows file system and what

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-16 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:27:13 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: So do I - it's the only win98 that I have ever had as a stable install. That's our morning funny! Thanks Anne! Long time no see... -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread John Drouhard
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:51:46 -0500 Harv Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm one step closer to dumping the Windows box altogether. Is there any advantage to Win4Lin over WINE? Are they pretty much the same thing? Is there any advantage to using one over the other ... or both? Any

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Cody Harris
So Win4Lin is like VPC for Win? - Original Message - From: John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:51:46 -0500 Harv Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm one step closer

RE: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Grant
I've got to add that I use Win4Lin and I love it. - Grant I'm one step closer to dumping the Windows box altogether. Is there any advantage to Win4Lin over WINE? Are they pretty much the same thing? Is there any advantage to using one over the other ... or both? Any other

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread John Drouhard
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 21:42:06 -0300 Cody Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So Win4Lin is like VPC for Win? Basically. It can't run linux inside of windows like VPC can, and the core code is different. AFAIK, It does the same thing. Correct me if I'm wrong. John Drouhard -- Tue Jul 15 20:11:55

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 10:42, Cody Harris wrote: So Win4Lin is like VPC for Win? No. VMWare is like VPC; WINE and Win4Lin are layers that allow you to natively run the Windows applications. -- Wed Jul 16 11:25:00 EST 2003 11:25:00 up 2 days, 3:28, 2 users, load average: 0.52, 0.65, 0.56

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Paul Kaplan
I got wine to run Excel 97 Word 97 (at least for what I was doing using the RPMs that came with Mandrake 9.0, but something got broken in LM9.1 I do use Crossover Office for several windows apps at work and it does an impressive job under 9.1. Office XP apps are at least as fast as under

RE: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Grant
What is VPC? So Win4Lin is like VPC for Win? Basically. It can't run linux inside of windows like VPC can, and the core code is different. AFAIK, It does the same thing. Correct me if I'm wrong. John Drouhard -- Tue Jul 15 20:11:55 CDT 2003

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Cody Harris
: RE: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE What is VPC? So Win4Lin is like VPC for Win? Basically. It can't run linux inside of windows like VPC can, and the core code is different. AFAIK, It does the same thing. Correct me if I'm wrong. John Drouhard -- Tue Jul 15 20:11:55 CDT 2003

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 09:51, Harv Nelson wrote: I'm one step closer to dumping the Windows box altogether. Is there any advantage to Win4Lin over WINE? Are they pretty much the same thing? Is there any advantage to using one over the other ... or both? Any other cautions, caveats,

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Roland Hughes
Has anyone managed to get TaxCut to work under wine? This would allow me to get rid of my last windows partition. Roly On Tuesday 15 July 2003 06:28 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: I got wine to run Excel 97 Word 97 (at least for what I was doing using the RPMs that came with Mandrake 9.0, but

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread aron smith
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 19:30, Roland Hughes wrote: Has anyone managed to get TaxCut to work under wine? This would allow me to get rid of my last windows partition. Roly Hell I had enough trouble getting Tax Cut to work under Win98 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 11:27, Grant wrote: What is VPC? VPC (Virtual PC) is a software program for Macintosh/Apple computers that creates a virtual pc - an emulated x86 architecture - but with Windows98 installed (although you can set it up to run almost anything x86 based); it has been very

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs WINE

2003-07-15 Thread Roland Hughes
It worked fine under windows but I want to get rid of that. Roly On Tuesday 15 July 2003 08:44 pm, aron smith wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 19:30, Roland Hughes wrote: Has anyone managed to get TaxCut to work under wine? This would allow me to get rid of my last windows partition. Roly

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs. Wine vs. VMWare

2003-03-13 Thread Preston-Campbell
On Thursday 13 March 2003 10:58 am, Brian wrote: I guess I don't understand why you would choose one of these over the other. I am familiar with VMWare, and that seems to make the most sense if you need to run a particular Windows (or other OS) application within Linux. I know it is a

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs. Wine vs. VMWare

2003-03-13 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 13 March 2003 10:58 am, Brian wrote: I guess I don't understand why you would choose one of these over the other. I am familiar with VMWare, and that seems to make the most sense if you need to run a particular Windows (or other OS) application within Linux. I know it is a

Re: [newbie] Win4Lin vs. Wine vs. VMWare

2003-03-13 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 04:12, Greg Meyer wrote: In my mind, the most cost effective sure thing is Win4Lin, assuming one does not have to run one of the NT flavors of Windows. I believe that VMWare is really aimed at the developer market so that applications can be easily tested for