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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. Re:in other news by AntiOrganic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    USB1.1 wasn't actually renamed to USB2.0. That article was poorly researched, misleading, and in some instances just plain wrong.

    Read my post on that, if you're confused.

  2. Re:This is great news! by croddy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    alright, I'll bite. what's your ESL score?

  3. I am so sold on this! by getnuked · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I was using vmware, however it is so bloated and slow, not to mention the multi-hundred dollar US price tag (even for upgrades) that I am very happy there is a solution like win4lin!

    To all of those claiming to be geeks (you are reading /. aren't you? ;) stop complaining about patching your kernels! Wow, I can't believe that Linux has become so popular that average pee-cee users are now using Linux (what other explanation is there for someone to complain about patching a kernel!). First there are binary packages for most distros, yet there is also source if you are a) using another distro, or b) too cool to not install from source. If you haven't YET compiled the kernel (or any other application for that matter) from source go back to native winblows or get a 'pretty' mac (isn't it cute)! ;)