> >
> > somehow this just confused me even more how about you larry?
>
> Not sure why as I didn't write what you quoted :-)
Mike...ignore this. I misread it and thought you were saying I confused
you...which is normally the case when I write something :-)
I really get a chuckle out of a lot of the software being sold (or
free) in the Linux world. They've just not dealt with the marketing
pressure of the Mac or Windows world I guess. I also downloaded
and installed Win4Lin tonight. They are most courteous in given a 15 day
evaluation and their installation seems to go well. They even mediate the
installation of the virtual "machine" using your W'98 disk. Then you're
dumped back at the Linux prompt.
After much searching and many "let's try this" operations, I found that
you can actually make something happen by typing "win". This, however,
pops up some more menus with absolutely no explanation of what the options
are but they are things that must be configured. Making reasonable
guesses I proceeded and ultimately I got it to run...or at least now it
will give me _No work-you lose due to insufficient memory, insufficient
file space or something else_ How the heck do they expect to move Windows
user anywhere with this sort of mess?
I've come to the conclusion that the notion of typical Windows users
moving to Linux is a fantasy, mot because Linux isn't up to the task but
rather that the Linux developers/marketers are computer geeks who like to
play computers too much and don't like to stabilize and document. This
was always the problem I had when I contracted programmers and it appears
that things haven't changed much.
Cheers --- Larry
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