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Win4Lin 5.0 Reviewed

Posted by michael on from the necessity-calls dept.

uninet writes "About a month ago, NeTraverse contacted OfB Labs with an early release copy of Win4Lin 5.0, the follow-up to the already impressive Win4Lin 4.0 released in May 2002. Win4Lin, for those not familiar with it, offers near-native (or better) speed "virtualization" of a Windows box so that one can run Windows 9x (95/98/Me) inside GNU/Linux."

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  1. in other news by pardasaniman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Win4Lin 4.0 has been renamed to Win4Lin 5.0 Full-Speed!!!!

  2. How is it pronounced? by jeepliberty · · Score: 1, Funny
    About a month ago, NeTraverse contacted OfB Labs with an....

    NeTraverse...How is it pronounced?
    Net reverse? or
    Knee traverse?

  3. Speed? by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...offers near-native (or better) speed "virtualization" of a Windows box...

    Surely you're not suggesting that some tree-loving hippies can generate faster code than the world's biggest software maker? Quick, subsidise Microsoft so that it can compete more fairly! Better still, pass a law to make open source illegal!

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    "Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
  4. Linux Emulators by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 4, Funny

    On a related note, how come there are no Linux emulators for Windows? Is it because Windows has better alternatives to any Linux program, or is there some sort of GPL patent issue?

    You can run linux in vmware in windows in vmware in linux in vmware in windows in vmware in linux in vmware in windows in vmware in linux in vmware in windows in vmware in linux in vmware in windows in vmware in linux in vmware in windows in vmware in linux in vmware in windows in vmware in linux.

    And from what I understand, you can do this in windows too.

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    -1 Uncomfortable Truth
  5. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  6. Re:This is great news! by Slashdolt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, it's bad to comment on sigs, but I had to laugh...

    "DISCLAIMER: The views expressed hereafter are not necessarily those of MENSA, which I am only a member of."

    How about "of which I am only a member"?

    LOL!

  7. Re:The answer is by okvol · · Score: 2, Funny

    Posix - all games should be coded to this standard, and they could run on any Posix compliant OS. (This ad sponsored by the UN. Please submit all comments in Esperanto.)

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  8. Re:This is great news! by micromoog · · Score: 1, Funny

    "This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put!"
    - Winston Churchill

  9. Re:No 3D? by Captain+Rotundo · · Score: 2, Funny

    No you don't understand the original post. When he said "network aware display system" he meant "I hate X for no reason and will blame any performance issues on network-awareness because everyone else does"

    You clearly don't have your copy of the "Anti-X because it's a popular target, even though I won't do any contribution to change that to english" dictionary handy.

  10. Re:Free with your computer? by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 2, Funny
    You forgot:

    I use cowboy neil's windows longhorn cd

    -or-

    Cowboy Neil washes my windows

  11. Re:NOT TRUE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Stop reading slashdot, slacker!
    Your board members are watching you...