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by **Nick Smeltze** » Fri, 09 Apr 1999 04:00:00

Sorry, I'm not a pc idiot, just completely new to linux. I lurked here
for a day or two and didn't see the answer.

Can I run Windows95 in a Linux RedHat 5.2 shell? This would let me play
Linux but still use my favorite apps. I've set it up to dual boot, but I
want to actually run one or two Win95 sessions in Linux itself.

Someone told me it was possible, but in the 4 days of having RedHat on
my system I can't figure it out...

Sorry for the dumb question.

Nick
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by **William H. Pridge** » Fri, 09 Apr 1999 04:00:00

> Sorry, I'm not a pc idiot, just completely new to linux. I lurked here
> for a day or two and didn't see the answer.

> Can I run Windows95 in a Linux RedHat 5.2 shell? This would let me play
> Linux but still use my favorite apps. I've set it up to dual boot, but I
> want to actually run one or two Win95 sessions in Linux itself.

> Someone told me it was possible, but in the 4 days of having RedHat on
> my system I can't figure it out...

> Sorry for the dumb question.

> Nick

There are programs that allow you to run some Windows apps under Linux.
One of these is called WINE. Another is called WABI. One cannot run
Windows 95 itself from a terminal.

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by **Daniel Bradl** » Sat, 10 Apr 1999 04:00:00

Go to http://www.vmware.com

VMWare allows you to run Win95/Win98/Linux/BSD whatever inside a
virtual machine running on your linux box.

On a K6200 NT is a little slow, but if you have a faster machine
something like a k6-2 or a celeron/PII you should be fine.

Cheers,
Daniel.

>> Sorry, I'm not a pc idiot, just completely new to linux. I lurked here
>> for a day or two and didn't see the answer.

>> Can I run Windows95 in a Linux RedHat 5.2 shell? This would let me play
>> Linux but still use my favorite apps. I've set it up to dual boot, but I
>> want to actually run one or two Win95 sessions in Linux itself.

>> Someone told me it was possible, but in the 4 days of having RedHat on
>> my system I can't figure it out...

>> Sorry for the dumb question.

>> Nick

>There are programs that allow you to run some Windows apps under Linux.
>One of these is called WINE. Another is called WABI. One cannot run
>Windows 95 itself from a terminal.

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by **Andreas Schyma** » Sat, 10 Apr 1999 04:00:00

> Can I run Windows95 in a Linux RedHat 5.2 shell? This would let me play
> Linux but still use my favorite apps. I've set it up to dual boot, but I
> want to actually run one or two Win95 sessions in Linux itself.

You can run some Windows apps under Linux using WINE
(http://www.winehq.com/) or you could take a look att VMWare
(http://www.vmware.com/) which lets you run Win95 in a virtual machine
at the same time as you are running Linux.

Andreas.

by **Nick Brow » Sat, 10 Apr 1999 04:00:00

Don't expect miracles from WINE. It can't handle many big, complex,
non-Win32 pure apps. The worst offender in this respect is of course
Microsloth, who write to an undocumented API.

> Can I run Windows95 in a Linux RedHat 5.2 shell? This would let me play
> Linux but still use my favorite apps. I've set it up to dual boot, but I
> want to actually run one or two Win95 sessions in Linux itself.

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