Win4Lin seems to work pretty well. It's a bit grotty sometimes to get setup, but once you've got this going will operate windows well enough to get your M$ office stuff running without too much effort. My wife runs her Lotus 123 and Excel spreadsheets on her machine that way, and hasn't complained yet about the performance. Printing works well enough. What win4Lin won't give you is a good multimedia and/or gaming platform running this combination. It's great for business software, and much less painfull then rebooting your machine for those darned legacy applications. If I remember right the price is ~$39.00 US. Let me check on how well this is working with SMP now. I haven't yet tested this with 7.2 (with or without SMP). If your curious email me and I ll check this for you. I don't mess with the wife/account's machine too much, and only recently upgraded her computer to 7.1. (I don't dare, she's running Huge applications for her clients.) Interestingly enough many of the vertical market windows budget applications will run under win4lin just fine. Also for some of the dumb e-commerce sites that run way too much microsoft scripting, that won't work well with netscape, can be run well under Win4Lin windows and Linux and IE. hope this helps. On Monday 06 November 2000 07:08 am, you wrote: > > Would like to run win98 while I am running Linux. The first method that > come to mind is VMware. But if I'm reading their site correctly it's > $299............sorry > > What other alternatives are out there. Seems like I read about something > > on slashdot that would do the job for much less money, $40 ?. This is my > > home machine ( dual 400 w/256meg ram ) no gaming. > > Any input on options would be great. > > Thanks > Pat ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- Douglas Moreen email [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone 406-375-0566 web http://www.allboot.com mail AllBoot.Com 814 Priscilla Way Hamilton, MT 59840
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