Subj : Re: Another linux note...
To   : alt.bbs.synchronet
From : Kevin Paradine
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 10:20 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

Time Warrior wrote:
> Also supposedly -- win4lin is *true* DOS and Windows support under Linux. Now 
> correct me if i'm wrong, but i've heard plenty of Linux Sysops talk about DOS 
> EMU nightmares from hell trying to get DOS Doors to work properly under 
> Linux.
> 

Seems to me that you might as well just get VMware or Win4Lin and give 
it a shot.  You're not going to believe that it will be slower than 
molasses and introduce so many incompatibilities due to the incomplete 
machine virtualization that you'll be going back to Windows very 
quickly.  At least until you try it.

Please note that running a virtual host operating system (as in either 
Win4Lin or Vmware) exposes you to all of the spyware/worms/etc that made 
you want to switch off Windows in the first place.  They just run a lot 
slower because of the virtualization.

Windows may stink, and Linux might be difficult, but virtualizing 
Windows over Linux is worse than both.
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