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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."

2 of 419 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why? by xombo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why exactly does one need to run Windows at all? It seems Linux offers everything the average user would need.
    Games

  2. This is great news! by Mensa+Babe · · Score: 0, Troll

    But the question is, if things like Win4Lin, Wine. Lindows and VMware, are not the very reasons, for which the game producers don't release their games with native GNU/Linux binaries? After all, why would they care to do so, if they assume, that GNU users can run Windows games... This is a serious matter, I wonder what people more familiar with the "gaming industry" think about it. Have anyone done any serious research about this subject?

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