Re: How good *is* WINE really?

[Art Ross <aross skyenet net>]

Mark Knecht wrote:

> 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?

Yes you can work Windows tasks in the background as you do something else in
Linux.  This has been a blessing for us while using VMware at Sinclair
College.  VMware will really push the system resources so I have found myself
beginning a Windows task, use the Hot Keys to return to Linux and conduct some
System Administration tasks or other.

> 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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