[Warty] Running Windows in Linux - Linz

Bob Nielsen nielsen at oz.net
Sun Apr 17 05:54:05 UTC 2005


On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 05:22:33PM +1200, Lindsay wrote:

Win4Lin Pro does XP and Windows 2000 (although it should still be 
considered beta-ware, particularly for XP).  Unlike Win4Lin Home or 
Win4Lin 9x it doesn't require any kernel patches.  

> Thanks, but all my programs are produced to run on XP
> 
> On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 21:38 -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 11:13:36PM -0500, Tom Adelstein wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 14:19 +1200, Lindsay wrote:
> > > > I am using Ubuntu Warty.  I have tried to run some MS Windows programs
> > > > through Wine but with no success. (Wine didn't fully instal I think may
> > > > have been the problem).
> > > > 
> > > > There is another Linux utility that I can try.   What is it called
> > > > please?
> > > > 
> > > > Linz
> > > >   
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > Depending on which applications you want to run, the best option and
> > > cost proposition is crossover office from codeweavers.com
> > > 
> > > I have it installed in Hoary and it works perfectly. The current version
> > > is 4.2 and it costs US$39
> > > 
> > 
> > The Win4Lin Home version (which runs Win 95 through 98SE, but not 
> > 2000 or XP--I'm not sure about ME) is $29.95.




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