Re: [SLUG] Win4Lin and M$Office: followup rant

From: Patrick (pwgrant@mailandnews.com)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 23:14:48 EDT


Windows for Linux? What is this an emulator? Is it stable? Does it run
the MS office suite?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul M Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Win4Lin and M$Office: followup rant

> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:26:09PM -0400, Robert Haeckl wrote:
>
> > Legacy M$ apps (meaning Office95/Office97) work well in Win4Lin.
>
> Question: supposedly under VMWare, Windows apps run more stably (fewer
> crashes). Would you say the same is true for Windows apps running
> Win4Lin? I'm thinking of replacing my wife's Windows with a SuSE system
> running Win4Lin, and she's a power user. She _kills_ her system
> routinely. It would help if I could say that her Windows apps wouldn't
> crash as much (or Windows itself, for that matter).
>
> Paul
>



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