Netraverse Win4Lin in trouble or out of busienss?

[Jethro]

Well, others have speculated that vmware may be trying to run their
competition out of town, which is probably true to some extent.

You got win4lin to run on a 486? I've tried kde with mandrake on a 133
mhz machine and any gui stuff is unbearably slow. What window manager
are you using? If I could get win4lin to work on my 133, they might
get another sale because that'd make my old computer useful again.
(windows runs much faster on my 133 btw)

I guess if I'm going to run vmware and win4lin I might as well give
wine a shot, eh? Maybe I'll dual boot my computer while I'm at it
because I've got an extra HDD laying around collecting dust.


robert w hall <bobh at n-cantrell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<95SoTEAHALh7EwoK at n-cantrell.demon.co.uk>...
> In article <b11c49b4.0108220737.29c0fb3b at posting.google.com>, Jethro
> <qwasty at hotmail.com> writes
> > I'm using VMWare right now and I gotta tell
> >ya, it really kicks butt - and it's CHEAPER than win4lin.
> 
> well I (like many others) bought my copies for $35-$50 when vmware was
> $100 plus and hadn't even contemplated price reductions - I _wonder_ why
> vmware  dropped their price then, later bringing out the crippled
> 'express' version, and have made a very steep price reduction again
> now...?
> 
> >I initially ran vmware on my PII 450 128mb ram machine and it was a
> >bit slower than without vmware, but not slow enough to bother me.
> 
> Lucky you...
> 
>  I've run win4lin (and wine) on a 24Mb DX4-100 (vmware _may_ struggle)
> 
> IMHO, there is a real role for all 3 'products' (wine, win4lin, vmware
> (the full, not the express, version))
> 
> But times is hard, and there are some  tough dealings are afoot,
> including, some suspect, spreading of FUD about rivals.
> 
> The resulting carnage won't help the poor end-user, but may at least
> show one of the strengths of open-source development...
> 
> Bob