[CLUE-Tech] Win4Lin vs. VMWare vs. CrossOver Office

[Joe Linux]

I know some guys who use win4lin, and they just copy the entire 
partition to make "backups"  Has lots of advantages if you are a 
creative person.

Gary Threlkeld wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 11:05, Hani Duwaik wrote:
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>>Hello,
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>*snip*
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>>I have no experience with Win4Lin.
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>>Any comments, thoughts, or feedback would be very much appreciated.
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>I have a copy of Win4Lin installed on a Compaq Presario 450 laptop
>running RedHat 9.0.  And it works well for accessing MS Office applications.
>Netraverse's Win4Lin has done a reasonable job in making Windows and
>Linux rather seemless.  You logon to Linux; open a terminal window, type
>win or fwin (full screen) and the process boots windows like you were on an
>MS box.  Samba-like configurations insure that Windows plays well with
>Linux.
>All hardware accesses are handled through Linux and files are stored under
>Linux directories.
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>As has been pointed out Win4Lin runs only under Win95/98 and the latest
>version includes Win ME.  If you use Win2000 or WinXP, Win4Lin WILL
>NOT WORK as I believe these versions of windows work without using the
>old DOS-type calls.
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>The advantages to Win4Lin is that its cheap ($89 retail) and fast (acts like
>a standard windows session).  The disadvantage, aside from the Win2000/XP
>thing, is that it requires that you have a windows license for each user
>that you
>setup and you must do a complete install of Windows on the Linux box for
>each
>user.  Win4Lin checks to see if the user has an installed copy of windows
>under
>their home directory tree.  If not, the process won't run windows for you.
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>Hope this helps,
>
>Gary Threlkeld
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Hani Duwaik" <hduwaik at yahoo.com>
>To: "cluetech clue" <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 11:05 AM
>Subject: [CLUE-Tech] Win4Lin vs. VMWare vs. CrossOver Office
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>>Hello,
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>>I recently came across this LUG and thought I'd subscribe to some of
>>your mailing lists.
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>>At the moment, I have recently installed RedHat 8.0 (soon to upgrade to
>>9.0) and am trying to use it as my primary desktop.  However, for
>>various reasons, I need to use various tools in the Microsoft Office
>>Suite.
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>>In any case, I was wondering if anyone has had much experience with the
>>following products which seem to provide interoperability with MS apps:
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>>Win4Lin/VMWare/CrossOver Office
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>>FYI:  I recently downloaded the trial version of CrossOver Office and
>>was able to successfully install several MS apps.  However, I noticed
>>that when using Outlook to access an IMAP system requiring SPA
>>authentication, the CrossOver app freezes.  Otherwise, I find that it
>>is very useable for other apps.
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>>In regards to VMWare, I haven't used it in several years (I've toyed
>>with Linux for about 5-6 years now) and the last time I used it, it was
>>somewhat of a resource hog and had minimal performance (kind of
>>sluggish) but I now have a much stronger system with more memory (an
>>AMD 1500+ with 512MB).
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>>I have no experience with Win4Lin.
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>>Any comments, thoughts, or feedback would be very much appreciated.
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>>Thanks,
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>>-Hani
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