[CLUE-Tech] Do these two items exist?

[Matt Gushee]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 06:27:20PM -0600, jbrockmeier at earthlink.net wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Matt Gushee wrote:

> > 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 
> 
> I'm afraid that's not correct - Win4Lin does require Windows and operates
> basically the same way that VMware does. It's a more limited product than

Okay, you're probably right about it requiring Windows. But I have a very
clear memory of reading somewhere that it does *not* work the same way as 
VMWare, and requires less memory.

> VMware - it doesn't support Windows XP, 2000 or NT (at least according
> to their site) and the last time I checked it didn't even support sound. 
> It also doesn't support running Linux/FreeBSD or DOS as a virtual machine,
> so it's very limited. If all you want to do is to run Windows 95/98 or ME
> (supported in Win4Lin 4.0) then it might be just the thing - it's about 
> $89 as opposed to $299 for VMware workstation. 

Last I checked, VMWare also had a lightweight version for around the same
price that supported about the same versions of Windows.

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Matt Gushee
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