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Re: dumping the spare machine



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On 30 Jul 2001, Gavrie Philipson wrote:

> ??? Where do you get your facts ???
>
> - VMWare Express which runs Win9x costs $50. AFAIK, Win4Lin does not
> cost $12.5.

it was $300 last time I checked. I am glad to know they have a cheaper
product, sadly I see it's not compatable with kernel 2.4, and my new
Reiser partitions are not compatable with old kernels, I can't go back.
Win4Lin supports 2.4.3 at the moment, It's a setback I can live with.

> - The speed is certainly not x0.2, more like x0.75.

compared to Win4lin? MSWord zooms up in 3-4 seconds according to what I
read, no need to boot an entire VM. plus it uses native processes, and
therefore takes advantage of my SMP WS better.

> - VMWare uses no more disk space than Win4Lin.

VMW needs its own partition (I'm not going to use a slow virtual FS file
on a fragmented linux partition) and take up the pre-allocated room,
while win4lin will use the MUCH faster native ReiserFS (or ext2) and
take up exactly what its files need.

even more: VMW Express can't boot from partitions, it ONLY uses a
virtual FS file.


bottom line: even with the price advantage, looks like Win4Lin is the
right technological solution for my needs, so I'll ask again. does
anyone have experiance with US-win98 and Office2k on Win4Lin (2.x or
3.x) and Hebrew Office files?

Thanks.
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