[ale] Making Windows stable via Linux

[Geoffrey]

Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> Charles Marcus wrote:
> 
>>I don't think so.  Everything I've read suggests that Win4Lin (Win9x) on
>>Linux is considerably *more* stable than pure Win9x.  And as an added bonus,
>>if Windows crashes, it only crashes the Windows session - and you can get
>>back up and running in 20-30 seconds.
> 
> 
> I wonder: would I get better reliability out of my wife's
> Win98 box, which is a total piece of sh*t, by running
> something like Win4Lin or maybe VMWare with stock
> Win98 on top? I'm thinking about an absolutely minimal
> Gentoo or LFS install, whose only purpose is to host
> a guest Windows session. At the very least, as you say,
> the reboot time would go down from a couple of minutes
> to a couple dozen seconds.

I don't know about win4lin, but windows booting in vmware is not any 
faster then booting off the box.  In reality, it's probably slower.

Also, win98 under vmware is degraded verses win98 running on that same 
box resident.

The only gain in reliability would be that you could back up your whole 
vmware win98 install, then when it craps out on you, you just replace 
the whole bloody file.  Remember to retain decent back ups though.

> 


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