I heard about these windows emulation things, but I didn't believe it unti I saw win4lin running at a KCLug? meeting.
There are some hardware-related limitations to win4lin (e.g. no USB support) but it's a pretty complete software solution. Quicken runs just fine. Debian isn't officially supported, but they have unnoficial support.
2004/06/19: ran into authentication trouble reconciling my discover account... figured it was perhaps time to stop ignoring the "critical updates" dialogs. googled around until I found directions for cleaning up windows update. I think the Root Certificates Update did the trick. All is well now.
1Feb2004: re-installed on new DirkMachine (ssh host key fingerprint 9c:52:14:e1:94:4f:b6:a3:d6:46:79:de:5b:59:06:0f). a little fidgety, but not bad, considering. see also details in email to self.
2 Dec 2003: noticed Win4Lin 5.1 support for Linux kernel 2.6; updated. Hmm... now where's the kernel patch? ah... clues
25 Aug 2003: ouch! following a 16Aug upgrade of DebianPackage:libc6, I get
$ win /bin/win: line 231: 2934 Segmentation fault winconfig $USE_CONFIG list version >/dev/null 2>&1 /opt/win4lin/bin/win_probe: line 38: 2982 Segmentation fault $STATICMERGE/publicbin/dosexec ++VLW $CONFIG 2>/dev/null
I see from DebianBug:205328 that I'm not the only one. I guess I'll have to learn this chroot magic.
Nope... Netraverse sent a 5.0.5 release announcement on 19 August. Wow!
30 Jun 2003 upgrading to version 5.
As another laudable touch, NeTraverse? has standardized on the same kernel module for Win4Lin 3.x, 4.x, and 5.x. Open for Business - Win4Lin 5: A Real Win for Linux Users By Timothy R. Butler Editor-in-Chief, Open for Business June 18, 2003, 16:35:54 EDT via Win4Lin 5.0 Reviewed slashdot 19Jun.
makde a CD backup of /usr/local/win using DebianPackage:xcdroast, with the rockridge backup option rather than rockridge anonymous.
oops... ordered the $60 special; meant to order the $30 upgrade. Called customer support... moderate hold time... they agreed to credit the difference. cool.
Wow... that was easy. There were a few misleading messages during the install that suggested it didn't detect my previous installation, but I just pressed on and followed my nose and it worked just fine.
Cool! cut and paste from X! you just need to use shift-F12 to get the option visible; see win4lin control window docs.
10 Jan 2002 re-installing win4lin... looking to use it with kernel 2.4.17... starting at netraverse
Here's a success report for win4lin with kernel 2.4.16. grabbed Kernel-Win4Lin3-2.4.16.patch from kernel patches . grabbed mki-adapter.patch . Let's see if DebianLinuxJustWorks for building patched kernels... ok, building a patched kernel (with the netraverse mki patch and their 2.4.16 patch) was very straightforward, once I stopped trying to be clever.
Then I installed their debian package (from the customer download area), did loadwindowsCD, and then copied my win directory from my former install (instead of doing installwindows again). It's working now.
8 Sep 2001 Original order for win4lin; that's when they sent me the license key.
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