RE: How good *is* WINE really?

[Mark Knecht <mknecht controlnet com>]

Adding to this:

Win4Lin is a patch to the kernel that allows you to install different
versions of Microsoft Windows inside of user directories on your Linux
machine. Each user can run different versions of Windows. (Win 95, Win98,
Win98SE, maybe Win3.1 but I don't remember) The Windows desktop shows up as
a program running on your Linux Desktop. You see Linux and Windows at the
same time. The difference between this and Wine is that with Win4Lin you are
required to have a valid Microsoft license, but you are running real
Microsoft code between Linux and your Windows application. since most of us
have a license form an old machine that we have happily made Linux, this
does not generally add any cost to the overall solution.

I would be interested in someone who know VMWare commenting on this
question. With VMWare, are you capable of splitting CPU cycles between OS's?
Can I start a Windows job, and then put it in the background, but running,
and doing work in Linux, sometimes coming back to see how things are going
in Windows? I can do this with Win4Lin by simply minimizing the Windows
desktop.

-----Original Message-----
From: Werner Kliewer [mailto:VKliewer mpi mb ca]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 12:29 PM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: How good *is* WINE really?


WINE (Wine Is Not and Emulator) runs Windows applications in the 
Linux environment using Windows libraries and drivers, and provides the 
interfaces to let the Windows drivers share your Linux devices. You can 
have Windows applications and Linux applications running side-by-side 
on the screen. Only some Windows apps will actually work in this 
environment, but if what you need is among them, this can be very nice.

VMWare turns the base operating system into a Virtual Machine engine. 
You then install and run whole operating systems and their applications 
on top of this. So now you can run Windows 2000, Linux, SCO, BEOS, 
Win98 all at the same time. Each one thinks it has the computer to itself. 
You have to switch from one environment to another (using hot-keys) the 
windows from one won't show on the screen at the same time as the 
others. It means if Win98 blows up, you reboot that, but all the rest keep 
working. This is a much more sophisticated way of doing things and can 
be very effective for some purposes, but it is a commercial product. This 
means it costs money, but also has some incentive behind it to make it 
work better.


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Werner (Vern) Kliewer
Sr. ITS Analyst
Mid-Range Support
Manitoba Public Insurance
(204)-985-7745
vkliewer mpi mb ca
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