A Better Way to Run Windows Apps in Linux
| The state of software support for Linux has gotten pretty good?for me, it's gotten good enough that the only Linux-unfriendly application for which I pine is the Launchcast streaming music service I've mentioned in previous columns on Codeweavers Crossover Office and on app interoperability in general. However, my own business computing needs don't stray too far from the core, which OpenOffice, Evolution and Mozilla provide for very well. |
My Crossover Office column drew a good deal of mail from readers stuck with particular Windows-only applications, and it's likely that every Linux user encounters certain applications that they must or would like to run for which the Linux platform is persona non grata.
There are workarounds, however: The most obvious of these is maintaining a dual-boot system. Although I don't think setting up and using a dual-boot Windows-and-Linux system is a nightmare, it's definitely a sizable hassle, and this sort of setup tends to discourage switching back and forth between the OSes. What's more, if you want to run applications from both platforms concurrently, a dual-boot setup is totally unworkable.
Netraverse's Win4Lin Workstation Edition 5.0, which I've recently been testing, is one option that's worth evaluating for running Windows applications within Linux.
The $90 product enables Windows to live within an auto-resizing window on your Linux desktop. Inside that window, you can run standard Windows software such as Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft Office.
Once Win4Lin was installed, it worked well in my tests. Windows applications ran as I d expect them to, and the data and devices from my Linux system were pretty much all on hand. And yes, Launchcast streamed its tunes to me quite happily.
Read full article at - eWeek.com
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