Re: Clarification on a few things

[Henry Palonen <henkka-at-yty.net>]

* David Preston (Dpreston-at-netlink.com.au) [02.03.2001 11:42]:
> ...
> but not really neccesary". I've heard that software designed for windows can
> now also be run on Linux, if that's true and applicable to Red Hat 6.0/6.1
> the way to go would be to wipe everything off the EMC computer (which I'm
> happy to do) and run with RH 6.0 or 6.1. By the way, what kernel dose 6.1 an
> 6.2 use?

I had to comment this. There are couple of options for using Windows
software at linux. First, and in my opinion most working solution, is
to use VMWare software [1]. It allows user to install
w95/w98/nt4/w2k/linux etc. "client" machines on top of "host" system,
in this case linux. I'm using this every day in my work. It seems rock
solid and with 196Mb memory I'm running NT 4 server on top of linux
happily. Only thing about this solution is the price. But there is an
free alternative, Plex86 [2]. It's evolving and it's getting better
and better all the time. It operates on similar priciples as VMWare.
Third solution is to use Wine [3]. It operates with slightly different
manner, you can just run one application at the time. But even this is
sometimes enough. Fourth solution is to use VNCViewer/VNCServer [4]
combination. It allows user to use -remote- Windows-machine from linux machine
and vice versa. It's also free. It operates quite nicely over network, and it saves
the "state" of desktop between sessions. So you can continue your work
where it was left, even if you are continuining the work in another
computer. I hope some of this information is useful for somebody. Is
this commonly enough question to be in FAQ ?

And by the way, RH 6.1 / 6.2 use kernels 2.2.12 and 2.2.14 if I recall
correctly.

[1] http://www.vmware.com
[2] http://www.plex86.org
[3] http://www.winehq.com/
[4] http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

Regards,

Henry Palonen
h-at-_nospam_yty.net