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Author: Pete Buechler
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Subject: Virtual Machines...
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

http://www.suse.com/~peterb