Virtual Machines...

[Pete Buechler]

On Thursday 21 December 2000 06:03 pm, you wrote:
> On Dec 21,  4:08pm, David Verley wrote:
> > Anybody out there have much experience with VMWare and/or Win4Lin?
> > Wife has some windows apps and I have my games that I want to hang
> > on to, but I'm looking forward to completely nuking Windoze.
>
> I occassionally use VMWare.  It works quite well, but is somewhat
> expensive.  Also, by using VMWare, you aren't really getting rid
> of Windows.  (But at least you won't need to reboot your linux
> box.)
>
> If you only have a few Windows apps that you need to run, you might
> see if they'll run under WINE.
>

VMware has come out with some $79.00 offer for Linux users who want to 
run Windows 95 or 98. Don't know other details, but they are at the 
vmware web site http://www.vmware.com
-- 
Pete Buechler
Developer, SuSE Labs
peterb@suse.com
http://www.suse.com/~peterb