Author: Robert Pawlak
Date: 18:09:44 06/16/00
As many of you are aware, there are a few options for running windows SW nder Linux. For quite a while, I had been using vmware, and while the gui was a bit slow, it ran amazingly well. I was pretty satisfied until I tried win4lin by Trelos (www.trelos.com). It is nearly as fast as running native win95/98. Setup is easy, and disk usage is a vast improvement over vmware. Network usage is totally transparent, but only TCP/IP is supported. The negatives are no support for SMP, COM ports, DirectX, or sound. They recently made a demo aavailable on their site, and I would suggest that anyone looking to run their win SW on Linux take a look. So far I've tried Fritz 5 and Chess Assistant 5. Both work fine, but there was a slight problem with the CA 5 copy protection during the install process. Based on my experience running office SW with win4lin, I expect that most windows chess programs will probably run fine. Bob P.
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