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Review Of Serenity Virtual Station
JigSaw writes "Here's some serious competition for VMWare and Virtual PC: OSNews reviews a new OS emulator, the Serenity Virtual Station, which can run as a host on FreeBSD, Linux and OS/2 and supports as guests a slew of OSes. It is based on the twoOStwo virtual operating engine (which additonally runs on top of Windows as well)."
This, ladies and gentleman, is an example of what happens when ignorance is given a voice.
You can't run Windows apps from 10 years ago b/c XP will complain that they aren't 32 bit apps; they are 16 bit.
100% wrong. Windows XP won't "complain;" it will run them just fine. Your post, however, doesn't even make sense.
Windows 3.1 apps were 16-bit but ran just fine in Windows 95. Win32 was built with a compatibility layer. Consequently, XP runs Windows 95 apps just fine, as NT4 used the Win32 library developed in 95.
You can even run the MS-DOS Executive from Windows 1.0 under Windows XP.
Not to mention the fact that Windows XP has a Compabitility tab in application properties that lets you emulate the quirks of older Windows versions if apps start complaining. Why would XP have that if it has no ability to run older Windows applications? Moron.
I had to go buy all new versions of games that I had for DOS in order to play them through Windows 95/98 because of the architectural changes in the OS.
1.) Windows 95/98 was built on top of DOS. You would have been able to run your DOS programs just fine. There were no "architectural changes" in Windows 95/98.
2.) This has absolutely nothing with what I was talking about, because those are DOS programs. I said Windows programs. Again, moron.
The Star Wars flight sim games called Xwing and Tie Fighter are the games I had to repurchase.
Then you wasted your money because they ran just fine under Windows 98. How do I know? I PLAYED THEM. Windows 98 is built on top of MS-DOS.
Some games that I used in DOS don't work at all anymore.
Again, has nothing to do with anything because I said Windows programs from 10 years ago. I said nothing about DOS. DOS was thankfully disposed of in the NT line of Windows and brought to the masses via XP.
A lib change in Linux is different than a kernel change in Windows that prevents games from running at all.
Haha, thanks for the "info." I love that you're trying to inform me when you're completely uninformed...
As far as Linux goes, fire up an RPM you got in 1997 and see if it runs fine. Let me know how it goes. Next.
Upgrade a lib and you are done...or to help the customer just statically link the libs anyway,which is what should be done for commercial apps. Don't alienate users by making them worry about the libs.
Still doesn't change the fact that older RPMs expect things in certain places, expect a certain kernel behavior, expect certain prerequisites that might not be met because they've been replace dor changed names, etc. etc.
Windows does not have this problem. The solutions I described would help Linux get over this major hassle. Next time, however, I suggest reading up on what you're talking about before you reply about something and make yourself look completely uninformed.