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Brand: Netraverse EAN: 0816534007756 Item Dimensions: Label: Netraverse Manufacturer: Netraverse Model: 193134101x Platform: Linux Publisher: Netraverse Release Date: May 18, 2001 Studio: Netraverse Editorial Review: Amazon.com Product Description: With Win4Lin Desktop 2, you can run your favorite Windows applications on the Linux operating system, with no additional hardware and no need to dualboot. Win4Lin runs popular programs, such as Microsoft Office, Intuit Quicken, and Adobe Photoshop, out of the box at optimized speeds. Version 2 includes SMP support, sound support, and support for European language versions of Windows. Run Windows as a Linux process, and integrate with Linux file systems and networking. No additional partitions are required. Win4Lin runs on minimally configured PCs, so no hardware upgrades are necessary. Share files and printers between Windows and Linux, and get support for TCP/IP networking, serial, and parallel ports. Win4Lin Desktop can minimize downtime, reduce system damage from common Windows viruses, and ensures that Windows application failures will not crash the entire system. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Excellent for Heterogenous Office EnvironmentsAs someone who must cope with colleagues who insist on sending Office documents as attachments, expecting me to do something with them, this tool is a painless way to make use of all my Win9n "drink coasters" - yes, it may not run the latest games, but for serious office application work, this is a God-send - everthing that it needs to do it does well - Office and Smartsuite applications, with networking, Palm synching - a fabulous product that does NOT have the VMWare limitations of requiring a ... Read More Rating:  - Take control of WindozeWin4Lin allows me to run as many copies of Win98 as I can put in my Linux /home partition. Currently now I have 15 or so at average 100mb each. What this lets me do is install/uninstall software without the risk of destroying my Win98 installation - and without having to backup a disk, just a directory. Win4Lin installs in the user's home directory in a directory named Win. By selectively copying and renaming directories, I can keep seperate developement environments going for each of my clients, ... Read More Rating: - Very easy to use and works greatI downloaded their demo version because I wanted to make sure my programs would work on it. After installing it which went very easy, I installed my Visual Studio C++ 6.0 and compiled an MFC app and a COM module which worked just fine. I have also tested Autocad 14 with it and it worked just fine and so does AOL 5.0 so I bought the program after only a few hours after trying the demo. Works very well and allows me to compile programs within my Linux environment. |
