Win Software on Linux

[Lindsay]

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:30 -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:59:56PM -0500, emperor wrote:
> > 
> > I have used the wine from http://winehq.com but have found CodeWeavers a
> > much better wine. There is a demo version available and the Standard
> > version 4.1 is on sale right now for $36. I am using CodeWeavers to run
> > Quicken, TurboTax and Itunes.
> > 
> > You can also buy the new home version of Win4Lin for $29 that will
> > let you install Win98 or WinMe right from the M$ CD into Linux. The
> > only catch is that you will have to patch and build a kernel for it to
> > run. This can be difficult for new users.
> > 
> 
> You can download a "generic kernel" from the Win4Lin site which works 
> well with Ubuntu.  I downloaded 
> Kernel-Win4Lin3-NeTraverse1.0_2.6.8.1-03.i686.rpm, converted it to a 
> .deb with alien and it installed without problems.  I had to edit 
> menu.lst by hand to get grub to recognize the kernel, however.
> 
Too advanced for me yet I think