Re: [twuug] Quick Look - Win4Lin

[Mark Davis <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Donald E. Stidwell wrote:
> 
> Once you've rebooted, you'll need to (as root) run the install script. Then,
> as root again, run the winsetup script. This script copies needed Windows
> files to your Linux filesystem, including all the cab files. Finally, as a
> user, you run winsetup again to actually install Windows in your home
> directory.

It can also be in a different directory, at least Merge for SCO can...

> A Pentium 60 is certainly no speed demon, but time for entire setup process
> is about an hour, roughly equivalent to how long it takes to do a native
> Windows 98 install on this machine.

Yep

> There's no pretty icon for Windows

There can be if you want.  Takes only a second to set one up in KDE/Gnome

> - you just open an x-terminal and type
> win &. Startup time for Windows is actually faster than running native! This
> was a big surprise. No, it's not waaay faster, but it is noticeable. This
> tendency to run Windows and applications slightly faster than natively is a
> very nice plus.

Actually it is not a surprise, and I will explain why.  Unix is faster than
MS-Windows.  And since Merge uses native Unix filesystem support and other
Unix internals to support the running on MS-Windows, it will take advantage
of the inherent speed of Unix!

> My main purpose for running Windows under Linux is to use IE and Outlook and
> both applications run flawlessly. There is no network setup required under
> Windows and in fact, you are cautioned not to install Windows networking as
> this will screw up Win4Lin's native networking.

That is because Merge uses Unix's networking instead of MS-Windows.  So that
will be faster also

> Since I'm only using IE and Outlook, I can't say anything about how other
> applictions work, but I suspect that they'll run just fine and just as fast.

Yep, we run all kinds of things under Merge, and have for many years.
Have never found anything that will not run.

> Finally, Win4Lin costs only $49 vice $99 for VMWare.

VMWare is $330 for commercial use.

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