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

From: edoc (kd4e@arrl.net)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 23:22:02 EDT


What, please, is the advantage of Win4Lin (or the more pricey VMWare)
over Wine?

>From what I read here Wine seems to get the job done ... with more to
come ... http://www.icewalk.com/softlib/app/app_00356.html

"Input, I need input!" (Short Circuit)

Thanks! Doc

> 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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