From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 15 13:55:12 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 15 Aug 2001 20:55:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 82001 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2001 20:54:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Aug 2001 20:54:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 15 Aug 2001 20:54:26 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15X7gG-0006k0-00 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:54:24 -0700 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:54:24 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban on UNIX vs. Windowssuggestions?) Message-ID: <20010815135424.A25703@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <3B782724.3020904@reutershealth.com> <20010815214333.A7323@uazu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010815214333.A7323@uazu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i From: Robin Lee Powell On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:43:33PM +0100, Jim Peters wrote: > James F. Carter wrote: > > It would be best if all the good software for Windows could also run on > > UNIX. (To really do this, check out "vmware". You need a legal copy of > > Windows.) > > My preference for running Windows on top of Linux is Win4Lin - I > haven't gone back to VMWare since buying it. Only certain versions of > Windows are supported (I'm using Windows 98SE), but it really is easy > and trouble-free, and it runs at close to full native speed (or > faster!). DirectX is not supported, but nothing I run needs it, so no > big deal. I'm not aware of anything I need to run on my Windows box that _doesn't_ need DirectX. Of course, my Windows box was _specifically_ bought for games... 8) -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/