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by **Sean** » Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:03:14

I want to use linux to run win apps like macromedia flash. What distribution
has the easiest WINE set up? I have used SuSE, Redhat, and Caldera. Any
recommendations?

by S » Tue, 23 Apr 2002 19:30:44

> I want to use linux to run win apps like macromedia flash. What distribution
> has the easiest WINE set up? I have used SuSE, Redhat, and Caldera. Any
> recommendations?

Word of advice, do not use wine. Instead buy yourself a copy of vmware
and install windows inside linux. For this, you need a fast CPU and a
decent amount of RAM.

by **Sean** » Wed, 24 Apr 2002 00:27:51

Quote:> Word of advice, do not use wine. Instead buy yourself a copy of vmware
> and install windows inside linux. For this, you need a fast CPU and a
> decent amount of RAM.

Wouldn't that be slower than running just windows? I'd like to have the
speed of Wine that I have heard about. I don't mind doing a little tweaking
but I want it to work with out spending too much time.

by **Andrew Stit** » Wed, 24 Apr 2002 00:44:06

> > Word of advice, do not use wine. Instead buy yourself a copy of vmware
> > and install windows inside linux. For this, you need a fast CPU and a
> > decent amount of RAM.

> Wouldn't that be slower than running just windows? I'd like to have the
> speed of Wine that I have heard about. I don't mind doing a little tweaking
> but I want it to work with out spending too much time.

YES, obviously, but then youd be running windows, and thats just absurd.

by **Marcell** » Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:18:41

[snip]

Quote:
> yes, any guest OS running in a vmware window will be slower than in
> native windows, but given a good machine, it's not that big a deal. and
> when you think about the ease of use of vmware, it's worth it (no
> reboots back n forth).

I think vmware is the only proprietary software worth buying (if I had the money... I'm still a CD student:(
(of course I'm talking about the average home Linux user...)

Marcello

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by **Matthew van de Werke** » Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:49:01

> [snip]

>> yes, any guest OS running in a vmware window will be slower than in
>> native windows, but given a good machine, it's not that big a deal. and
>> when you think about the ease of use of vmware, it's worth it (no
>> reboots back n forth).

> I think vmware is the only proprietary software worth buying (if I had the
> money... I'm still a CD student:( (of course I'm talking about the average
> home Linux user...)

I've tried win4lin, and that's pretty good. Freaks you out a bit to see a
windows 98 startup splash screen on windowmaker, but you get used to it ;-).

Cheers,
MvdW

by **drumsti** » Thu, 25 Apr 2002 05:33:13

> i meant to ask, doesnt win4lin replace your kernel with its own custom
> kernel ?!?!?!

No, you just patch your kernel

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by **Sean** » Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:23:19

Quote:> I've tried win4lin, and that's pretty good. Freaks you out a bit to see a
> windows 98 startup splash screen on windowmaker, but you get used to it
;-).

> Cheers,
> MvdW

Does it come with any distributions as the default? Or as part of the
initial installation.

Like Redhat, Slackware, SuSE?

Thanks,

Sean

by **Matthew van de Werke** » Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:03:31

>>>> yes, any guest OS running in a vmware window will be slower than in
>>>> native windows, but given a good machine, it's not that big a deal. and
>>>> when you think about the ease of use of vmware, it's worth it (no
>>>> reboots back n forth).

>>> I think vmware is the only proprietary software worth buying (if I had
>>> the money... I'm still a CD student:( (of course I'm talking about the
>>> average home Linux user...)

>> I've tried win4lin, and that's pretty good. Freaks you out a bit to see a
>> windows 98 startup splash screen on windowmaker, but you get used to it
>> ;-).

> i meant to ask, doesnt win4lin replace your
> kernel with its own custom kernel ?!?!?!

Not necessarily. They have precompiled kernels, or you can apply their
patch to a kernel source, then compile your own. It's a bit of a downer
that you have to do this, but the performance is exceptional. For example,
when I was using it (I haven't used win4lin in a while, mind you), I found
that win98 under win4lin outperformed winNT on the *same hardware*. The
system in question was a PII-300 w/64MB RAM, so the 64MB limit of windows
under win4lin wasn't an issue.

A lot of the performance I believe was due to ext2fs' superior disk
performance, compared with NTFS.

Cheers,
MvdW

by **Matthew van de Werke** » Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:05:07

>> I've tried win4lin, and that's pretty good. Freaks you out a bit to see a
>> windows 98 startup splash screen on windowmaker, but you get used to it
> ;-).

>> Cheers,
>> MvdW

> Does it come with any distributions as the default? Or as part of the
> initial installation.

> Like Redhat, Slackware, SuSE?

Unfortunately, no - it's a commercial package. It's reasonably priced, too;
saves forking out big $$$ to run vmWare, if all you want is to run Windows
apps. It fills a nice little niche between those who have no need for any
other OS' software, and those who want to run any OS they want, and are
willing to pay well for the privilege.

Cheers,
MvdW

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