It's been a long time since I tried anything under Wine, but I run VMWare all the time. The only instability I see running Windows under VMWare is the same instability I would expect to see running Windows directly on the hardware. Linux under VMWare runs like a champ. Eric On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:36:22PM -0600, Fjorn wrote: > Out of curiosity, did this past week's meeting cover VM-Ware, or will I > be lucky enough to get a chance to make it to another meeting in which > it will be covered? > > In using Windows apps that have not yet been ported over to Linux, would > I be better off running Wine or VM-Ware, or a combination of the two? > I'm not very familiar with either one, but in looking at Wine's > database, some of the programs that I have aren't supported under it. I > do have the Wine admin handbook, but have yet to read it. > > I like the idea of running VM-Ware because, if I understand this > correctly, it's a Windows install on top of Linux. Yet, on the other > hand, I've also heard of a lot of instability with VM-Ware. > > Could anyone share some insight on some of the differences between the > two, and make a recommendation of what might best be suited to my > needs? Some of the apps that I'm running use a lot of Active-X. Or is > it Direct-X? So hard to remember which of the two it is... To many X's > and E's in today's terminology. > > Thanks, > > Shawn > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > >