Re: Linux and Windows XP on the same PC
From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/11/05
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:42:32 -0500
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:52:10 +0000, Augustus SFX van Dusen wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:43:43 -0500, General Schvantzkoph wrote:
>
>> Do you need to run XP natively? Next week Netraverse is going to release
>> the new version of Win4Lin that can run 2K or XP on top of Linux. I don't
>> know how well it's going to work because it's a brand new implementation
>> but the current version, which is Win9x only, works very well. The
>> performance of Win98 on Win4Lin is as good as native Win98. The advantage
>> is that you can run Windows and Linux at the same time. Win4Lin even
>> allows you to cut and paste between Windows and Linux apps. VMware is
>> another way to do this. It's slower and much more expensive then Win4Lin
>> but it's had XP support for several years so it's likely to give you fewer
>> problems.
>
> Thanks for your suggestion. I will most certainly look into Win4Lin.
I'm going to try the new version the second it's released, I'll let
everyone know how well it works.
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