Running Windows apps under Linux
I have a confession to make. I run Windows on my laptop. That is, I run Linux, and then use Windows under VMware. This month I want to explore the various alternatives for running Windows applications under Linux. While I had long been aware of Wine and VMware, I had only recently heard about another approach: Win4Lin. With that in mind, I fired up Google (another Linux success story), ran a search on Windows emulators, and found one additional lead, Bochs. So this month, we will look at those four alternatives for running Windows applications under Linux.
I run Windows because many of my customers use it along with Linux, and I need to test the same Windows-based applications that they run. However, the main reason surfaced when I got my new laptop about a year ago. I felt adamantly that I would run Linux on it because I had lots of work to do on Ethereal and was writing a book on Samba (see Resources for a link). Unfortunately, I had several years of mail locked up in Eudora that I needed to access. I also needed to run Word, PowerPoint, and Excel on many occasions, and the dual-boot blues did not appeal to me any longer. So, I got VMware and loaded Windows under it, and I've been much more productive ever since.
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