[CLUE-Tech] Do these two items exist?

[Matt Gushee]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:32:42PM -0600, Dameron, Gregg wrote:
> 
> 1.  My first eyes-on look at Linux was a colleague who was running RedHat
> 7.x on his laptop.  He opened a terminal window and entered "lintowin" or
> "lin2win" (don't remember which).  A large window appeared and inside it was
> a Win95 desktop, running natively (or so it appeared), allowing him to bring
> up MS Office docs.  The window closed when he picked "Start -> Log Off".
> Does anyone know this command and its pedigree?

It's called Lin4Win, and I've heard good things about it. The difference
between VMWare and Lin4Win is that the former is a complete virtual machine,
while the latter (IIRC) is a Linux implementation presumably clean-room, of 
the Win32 API. I believe the advantages of Lin4Win are that it uses less 
memory, and you can run Windows apps without having Windows (though the 
second isn't a big deal for most of us). The downside is that it requires a 
patched kernel; they do provide appropriate kernels for most current
Linux distributions, but if you prefer to customize your kernel you might
not not want to use this. Lin4Win is comparable in price to the "lite"
edition of VMWare, and I've seen it at SoftPro Books and The Tattered
Cover. 

> 2.  I have been unable to find any evidence that there is a Linux version of
> the Desktop Korn Shell (dtksh).  Is there one?

I take it that's different from an ordinary Korn Shell? Never heard of
it myself. Linux does have the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh), and you 
can get the "true" Korn Shell from ATT or Bell labs or something like 
that. It's an up-to-date version where pdksh is not, *but* in order to
install it you have to also get a massive set of support packages and
compile them using a weird AT&Tish build system that AFAIK is totally 
unlike anything else in the UNIX world. I couldn't get it to work myself.
I believe the license is also non-free, if that matters to you. 

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Matt Gushee
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