Re: IE on RH9

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:18:35 -0500, philo wrote:

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kernel patch, and it will run on 64 bit Linux (W4L9x only runs on 32 bit
Linux). However the drawback of W4LPro is that it's slow. W4L9x is
lightning fast. Remember it runs Win98 at native speeds and Win98 was
designed to run on 133Mhz Pentium I's, if you put it on an Athlon 64 it
flys). I've found that Win4LinPro is unpleasantly slow. I use it for
Quickbooks Pro 2005 and it's usable for that but other things aren't.
For example I had to generate a PDF file from a Word Document using
Acrobat 5. On W4L9x it took 20 seconds, on Win4LinPro I killed the job
after a half an hour.


thanks for the info...
I've fooled around with VMware, Bochs and Wine... but now don't bother...
i just muti-boot or run several machines at a time (with a KVM switch)

The advantage of W4L9x is that it's integrated into the Linux environment.
For example you can cut from Xemacs on Linux and paste into Word in
Windows. Also for those few websites that need IE, if you do a download
with IE it's onto your Linux disk.

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