Windows Installation

[Jonathan Gardner]

Cliff Wells scribbled with his keyboard:

> On 15 Mar 2002 05:35:15 GMT
> Gerhard Häring wrote:
> 
>> The best solution to this problem is to give in and get a damn Windows
>> box.  Even a virtual one with VMWare or Bochs will do. AFAIK Bochs can
>> run at least Windows 95 and it even runs on non-x86 hardware.
> 
> I use VMware 2.0 at work and 3.0 at home and found it to be excellent.
> I've had some stability problems with 3.0 (although this may be the result
> of other factors - later Linux kernel versions, Athlon CPU, keyboard/chair
> interface, etc).  At work, VMware 2.0 has never crashed on me and
> performance is excellent on a PIII 800 running Win2k, and it's far
> preferable to having a dual-boot system.
> 

VMWare is not free software, right?

Trouble with non-free software is that they tend to go out of business 
eventually (like our dear friends from the Blender community) and take 
their software with them.

Jonathan