| Windows on Linux: Real choices, real products [NewsForge] |
Nov. 29, 2001
In this interesting and informative article at NewsForge, Steven Vaughan-Nichols provides a comparison of the three most popular ways to run Windows applications on a Linux system, and answers the question "Is Win on Lin a Win?" Vaughan-Nichols writes . . .
"I was recently bemused to see some people praising to high- heaven the upcoming arrival of Lindows, which promises to enable Linux users to run Microsoft's Windows. It's funny because 1.) other than a catchy name, Lindows is vaporware and 2.) we've already have had MS Windows running on Linux, and before that Unix, for years."
"There are already several Windows and Linux (WAL) programs out there. The three most popular are VMWare's VMWare 3.0 Workstation 3.0; NeTraverse's Win4Lin 3.0; and WINE. They all take very different approaches to bringing Windows to Linux users and each works best for different users . . ."
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