free windows emulator ?

[minoukat]

I saw Win4Lin not long ago, and, just wondering, is there any free version of something like that (that shows the desktop and has alot of compatibility ?)

[parkan]

Virtual PC has a free trial and wine (LATEST VERSION!) should work for ya.

[SpeeDj]

Win4lin www.netraverse.com has a downloadable version of win4lin all you have to do is fill out some info. VMWare I think also has a trial available. So check em out.

J

[AmbientFiction]

Ok as far as I know Win and Linux4win are two different things you can down load most any Linux product for free and I know that Mandrake 8.0 has Linux for Win in it. Just boot windows and run the Mandrake 8.0 Cd #1 and it will display a box then click the Linux4Win and go from there. I have never used it though.

[SpeeDj]

Win4lin, allows you to run Windows, 95.98/SE, ME within a window inside the KDE or Gnome or any other X-Window interface on Linux. The only drawback of Win4lin is it does not support Direct X as of yet. But they are working on it. Hopefully that helps a bit. Win4lin will allow you run basically everything but windows games. =(

Linux 4 Win is a Mandrake thing, what you have to do to enable it is this, reboot with Setup disc one in your cd-rom drive. When the setup program window pop's up hit F1, then type in LNX4WIN at the command line.

What this will do is install Linux into a folder within your fat Partition called LNX4WIN. It will also set-up your boot manager to include the option of booting Windows or Linux (Linux is the default choice) The beauty of this system is it allow's you to run Linux on a completely FAT32 Type system without a worry of messing up your Partition's or losing any program information.

Hope this clears it all up a bit ?

J

[AmbientFiction]

How stable is it I have never used it.

[minoukat]

Thanks for your help ! Really appreciated !

[SickBoy]

I just looked at Win4Lin's web site and it looks like buying a license code is required. If I don't buy a license code does it work on a demo basis, or does it just not work at all? Anybody know?