Subj : Re: Another linux note...
To   : Kevin Paradine
From : Time Warrior
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 07:43 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Kevin Paradine
  Re: Re: Another linux note...
  By: Kevin Paradine to alt.bbs.synchronet on Thu Sep 29 2005 10:20 am

 > Time Warrior wrote:
 > > Also supposedly -- win4lin is *true* DOS and Windows support under Linux.
 > > correct me if i'm wrong, but i've heard plenty of Linux Sysops talk about
 > > 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.

Thats exactly what I want to do. Win4lin. AFAIK, it's only prone to virii / 
spyware if you "boot" Windows in a win4lin Window. Thats not what I want to 
do. If I was gonna do that I may as well just run Windows. lol

It's possible to run the Windows Apps on the X Desktop which doesn't run into 
that problem. The problem i'll be running into with Win4lin and Synchronet, 
is getting it to work that way at *all* :-)

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