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Windows95/98
and does not support the newer versions of Windows 2000/XP.  It's supposed
to be much
faster and less resource intensive that VMWare but does require a Windows
license.

VMWare used to push a "lite" version 2.0 that was good for Windows 95/98
only that was
about half the cost of the full version.  I had called on it and understand
that since they have
released 3.0 that the "lite" version is no longer available for sale.  The
customer service
representative said [probably the company line] that the "lite" version was
buggy, had
demonstrated problems, and was not well received so they pulled support.

Along these lines - does anyone know much about Lindows and how this
contrasts/compares
to the VMWare & Win4Lin products?

Gary T. Threlkeld
Email:    gthrelk at attbi.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Gushee" <mgushee at havenrock.com>
To: <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] Do these two items exist?


> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 06:27:20PM -0600, jbrockmeier at earthlink.net wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Matt Gushee wrote:
>
> > > It's called Lin4Win, and I've heard good things about it. The
difference
> > > between VMWare and Lin4Win is that the former is a complete virtual
machine,
> > > while the latter (IIRC) is a Linux implementation presumably
clean-room, of
> > > the Win32 API. I believe the advantages of Lin4Win are that it uses
less
> >
> > I'm afraid that's not correct - Win4Lin does require Windows and
operates
> > basically the same way that VMware does. It's a more limited product
than
>
> Okay, you're probably right about it requiring Windows. But I have a very
> clear memory of reading somewhere that it does *not* work the same way as
> VMWare, and requires less memory.
>
> > VMware - it doesn't support Windows XP, 2000 or NT (at least according
> > to their site) and the last time I checked it didn't even support sound.
> > It also doesn't support running Linux/FreeBSD or DOS as a virtual
machine,
> > so it's very limited. If all you want to do is to run Windows 95/98 or
ME
> > (supported in Win4Lin 4.0) then it might be just the thing - it's about
> > $89 as opposed to $299 for VMware workstation.
>
> Last I checked, VMWare also had a lightweight version for around the same
> price that supported about the same versions of Windows.
>
> --
> Matt Gushee
> Englewood, Colorado, USA
> mgushee at havenrock.com
> http://www.havenrock.com/
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