[plug] Terminal Server?

[Leon Brooks]

Bret Busby wrote:

> Leon Brooks wrote:
>> Win4Lin will typically run Windows 95 apps at twice native speed. That
>> is not a typoe. If you install Win95 on a machine, run benchmarks,
>> install Linux+Win4Lin on the same machine, run benchmarks, you will
>> approximately double your speed on the second run. All thanks to Linux's
>> better resource and process management.

> Please clarify the status of Win4Lin, compared with WinE.

WINE is an emulator, and a very good one. Win4Lin runs some pieces of 
Windows in a box.

> I understood that, with Win4Lin, a normal (?), licensed, registered
> version of Win9x, had to be installed on top of Win4Lin, to be able to
> run Windows programs.

Sort of. Or ME, and I think soon NT or 2000. Win4Lin self-installs the 
bits of Windows that it needs to operate. You could argue for a discount 
on the licence since what you're running is not entirely Windows. In 
fact, please do - and take a video camera with you. (-:

> how well do programs,
> like the MS Office Suite, and other Windows applications (eq, Quicken,
> Quick Books, etc) run on it?

Flawlessly. There is no DirectX support.

> What is the overhead like? Can it be run,
> on a 6x86 with 32MB of EDO RAM, and, run as fast, and, at least as
> stable, as if running these applications directly on MS Windows?

Yes.

> Could I
> run Star Office for Windows, on top of Win4Lin, on top of Linux?

Yes. Why would you do a thing like that if the native version is available?

> Can
> Win4Lin run MS Outlook? (I can get return receipt requests consistently,
> via iinet, only if I send messages out, using MS Outlook).

Yes. I get receipts consistently using any mailer. Bear in mind that the 
MTA and client are not obliged to return receipts, and in fact I usually 
don't.

> And, the inevitable question; can GDI printer drivers be run on Win4Lin,

It uses the Linux printer drivers. If you have a Linux driver that 
works, Windows programs will print.

> and, if so, can material be taken from the Linux work area (assuming
> that Linux applications can be run with Win4Lin), and, printed, via the
> GDI printer, running via Win4Lin?

As far as Linux applications are concerned, Win4Lin is just another 
application. As far as Windows applications are concerned, they're 
running under Windows, only everything's going too fast for too long.

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