Win Software on Linux

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:59:56PM -0500, emperor wrote:
> 
> I have used the wine from http://winehq.com but have found CodeWeavers a
> much better wine. There is a demo version available and the Standard
> version 4.1 is on sale right now for $36. I am using CodeWeavers to run
> Quicken, TurboTax and Itunes.
> 
> You can also buy the new home version of Win4Lin for $29 that will
> let you install Win98 or WinMe right from the M$ CD into Linux. The
> only catch is that you will have to patch and build a kernel for it to
> run. This can be difficult for new users.
> 

You can download a "generic kernel" from the Win4Lin site which works 
well with Ubuntu.  I downloaded 
Kernel-Win4Lin3-NeTraverse1.0_2.6.8.1-03.i686.rpm, converted it to a 
.deb with alien and it installed without problems.  I had to edit 
menu.lst by hand to get grub to recognize the kernel, however.