Win4Lin rocks the house.
It's a reincarnation of the SCO DOS Merge product; it uses a "virtual machine" (compleat with BIOS emulation, etc) to fool Windows into thinking it's running on a standalone PC, when in fact it's running in an X window.
It supports TCP/IP pretty well; I have not had ANY problem with any product I've tried except for NEC Sockscap. Others work flawlessly.
One cute thing is that you can "reboot" a crashed Windows9x session in about 16 seconds on my laptop when using Win4Lin; when running Windows natively, it takes several minutes. Heheh.
Sorry, I don't know anything about it when running Crimson Hat. After following the instructions about Slackware, I am running it fine on a Dell Inspiron 3800, FWIW. You might want to try "fwin" from a command line rather than xinit.
Also, I seem to remember something about a kernel size limit? Check the knowledge base at http://trelos.com ...
--Jonathan
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>>> "Glenn C. Lasher Jr." <glasher at nycap.rr.com> 11/28 8:05 AM >>>
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, JB Wells wrote:
What is Win4Lin?
> Anyone tried using Win4Lin yet? I tried to install
> the eval last night, but after booting the patched
> kernel, X would lock up after "startx" (i.e., dark,
> blank screen).
>
> I'm trying this on Redhat 6.2.
>
> Has anyone had similar experiences?
>
> JB
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