Lindows and Winlinux

[GenghisK]

Yesterday, while searching some information about Lindows, I found the homepage of Winlinux. It's actually a Linux that can run all windows programs. Contrary to (the excellent, though) VMWare, it seems that it's not an x86 emulation engine so the performances are great. The only drawback is that Winlinux is not free. But that shouldn't be a problem, since it's not too expensive and looks pretty good.

Ah sorry, forgot the link: http://www.winlinux.net


PS: btw, I saw a friend running linux and VMWare, playing counterstrike. Guess what, it runs faster than on a windows powered machine. Actually he had a MP Athlon, and since Linux is MP aware, that explains a lot... Also, just slipping to VMWare: it is really amazing. Imagine, it emulates a machine with "only" 100meg RAM and it loads windows XP much faster than a real PC with 256MB! Incredible but I saw it really. I guess their memory management is excellent. wow.

 

[Perfection]

I've heard you can run microsoft office on it! That is amazing!!!

 

[CornMaster]

Originally posted by Perfection
I've heard you can run microsoft office on it! That is amazing!!!

Expecially since MS Office can't run well on Windows.

 

[munzy76]

hehee, good one cornmaster. I really need to try out that VMware. I downloaded it but haven't gotten around to installing it.

 

[gonzo_for_civ]

Expecially since MS Office can't run well on Windows.

Really? I haven't had any problems w/Office XP on Win XP.