[oclug] OT: Camelot Content

[Ben Hall]

FWIW, Win4Lin is actually very fast.  Of course it's limited to 
Win9x/ME, but it actually runs very well on my P233 laptop with only 
64MB RAM.  I'm running 98 under Debian Potato and I really don't notice 
any speed difference from when I was running just Windows on that machine.

If Novo is still open you can get old copies of it for $70 less their 
discount.  I did this and Netraverse upgraded me to 3.0 for free.  I 
have to say that I'm quite impressed with Netraverse.  Win4Lin is a very 
different product that VMWare.  If I was doing serious development I'd 
want to use VMWare and Win2k, but for Word or similar stuff Win4Lin is a 
much better option for me.

(And it's _way_ cheaper than VMWare, which I have owned and upgraded 
since 1.0)

Ben

b stephen harding wrote:

>On March 18, 2002 09:04 pm, you wrote:
>
>>On Monday 18 March 2002 20:20, you wrote:
>>
>>>You don't have to boot back and forth.  Use VMware, I'm in a windows shop
>>>and my box runs SuSE Linux 7.3 Pro.  I have to have access to two windows
>>>programs to do my job.  VMware is a virtual machine and you can install
>>>most operation systems in it.
>>>
>>How much of a performance hit do you take?
>>
>
>I've noticed very little to none.  Like any office I don't do any really 
>demanding stuff, unlike what one might do at home or in a development 
>environment.  My home box is a 1.333/266 Athlon with 512DDR 2600 Ram and 
>Windows XP runs faster under VMware than it does natively on any box at work.
>