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Calum:
it may have been VMWare.
While wine and wineX emulate windows and allow windows programs to be run (apparently!) VMWare emulates another computer, so you then need to install windows on your virtual computer, but it runs within a windows in linux. Expensive though, as you need to buy VMWare, and you also need to legally own windows (of course you probably already do.)

sporkme:
ehhhhhh just dual boot it and then toy with phasing out windows completely

sporkme:
if windows crashes in vmware, does it make a sound?

if a tree falls on bill gates in the woods, does anybody care?

really what if windows bombshells in vmware

Calum:
well there are a few advantages of VMWare, it takes up less memory than a dual boot, since while it may think you have a 4Gig drive, if you only put 2 Gig of data on it, it will only take up 2 Gig on your REAL hard drive. Also, you can use windows and linux simultaneously, also, if windows crashes, it only crashes the virtual machine, and you do not need to reboot, because you are still in linux, just restart the program (which has not crashed, only windows crashes, not VMWare, as i am led to believe).

[ May 02, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

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