I agree. I have Win98SE running under Win4Lin 2.0 and sound works. Improved but not native TCP/IP networking. Can retrieve e-mail using Outlook 97 without problem. WinME users should stick with windoze if they have to have it under linux (just my opinion). Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > You must be a windoze convert. Why bash a linux product. No Win4Lin > > does not > > support WinMe ...yet, but why would you want to. Native win98Se is far > > more > > stable than WinMe IMHO. I use both, but find 98SE a better product if > > you're > > not using Win2000. People could say Mandrake users are "gungho" who > > use Red > > Hat and vice versa. There is no need to bash a product just because > > you don't > > use it or haven't used it. I have tried all of the windoze emulators. > > i hope they DON'T give support to WinME. it's really is not worth the > effort. WinME is slower than Win98 (check Tom's hardware website for an > excellent review on WinME.) its improved stability is at best minor. > most of the 'multimedia enhancements' from WinME can be downloaded for > free anyway, and if rumour is any guide, 'Whistler' is coming NEXT year > anyway (if M$ doesn't miss their schedule :-) > > it really annoys how MS is shoving WinME down people's throat, only to > ask them to fork out extra bucks for Whistler later. i work for a > computer hardware company, and we have already noticed how pricing for > Win98 is actually higher than WinME. this is all arbitrary. > > i have setup win98 on win4lin 1.0 on one machine. it's not a perfect > software, but it does what we need. win2000 is not bad ... though last > week i actually managed to 'destroy' my machine after i tried to install > printer driver for a hp deskjet on a win20000 partition. it failed to > install, and now my mouse and keyboard have stopped working... it's > going into repair next week ... > > thank heaven for my dedicated linux box (and my G4 Mac as well, but > that's another story ... ;-) > > aston > sydney, australia > >
