[ale] A free alternative to VMWare and Win4Lin

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Sat Feb 19 20:20:01 EST 2005


The just recently released Win4Lin Pro which supports 2000/XP.


On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:34:25 -0500, Tejus Parikh <tejus at vijedi.net> wrote:
> I used Win4Lin for a little bit a few years ago.  All it really does is
> run windows from inside of linux.  When I used it, I installed win98 on
> it.  Therefore I know that you can run win95 programs as I used to do
> that quite regularily.  However, I have since forgotten what the support
> for NT4 is.  One thing to note though is that it's that you actually
> have to reinstall Windows inside of win4lin (ala VMWare) so you will
> still have to run windows, but it will be windows running inside of
> linux.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:18 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > I have never used Win4Lin. Can you run Win95 and NT4 programs from it ?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Courtney
> >
> >
> >
> > James Sumners wrote:
> >
> > > The latest version is available in the Debian unstable archive. A
> > > derivative project that sounds particularly intersting is --
> > > http://darwine.opendarwin.org/
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:55:52 -0500 (EST), John Wells
> > > <jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>Guys,
> > >>
> > >>Thought many of you would find this thread on QEMU interesting:
> > >>
> > >>http://slashdot.org/articles/05/02/19/1538231.shtml?tid=190&tid=126&tid=1
> > >>
> > >>As a long time Win4Lin customer, I look forward to trying it out and
> > >>potentially leaving Win98 for windows apps behind!
> > >>
> > >>John
> > >>
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