Knoppix and Gnome.
Ken D'Ambrosio
kend at xanoptix.com
Mon Jan 10 08:02:00 EST 2005
Benjamin Scott wrote:
>Can't help with the rest, but as far as Win4Lin goes, NeTraverse has
>switched to providing a generic binary kernel based on pristine sources plus
>their own MKI patchkit. The theory is that this should work with "most"
>configurations, and the exceptions are likely to be for users advanced
>enough to patch their own kernels. So Win4Lin is supposed to be
>more-or-less distribution agnostic now.
>
Back in early 2.6 days, I tried to get W4L running on my Debian box, and
it was a total SNAFU. Seeing their download pages today, and the
slightly modified descriptions, gave me hope (eg., "You must download
this for a 2.6 kernel to work!"). I downloaded a stock 2.6.9 kernel
from kernel.org (the latest for which Netraverse had kernel patches),
patched it, compiled it... and lo! Worked like a champ. [Somehow, I
didn't even need to make any changes to its configuration. All the
config options were set correctly for my Knoppix install. Was this
accomplished through the "Kernel .config support"?] Anyway, W4L fired
right up, Quickbooks installed w/o a hitch, Gnome and Enlightenment are
happy... the only thing I need to do now is get my internal wireless
working by way of ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net).
As Jerry noted, it doesn't run W2K, but I don't think it ever will
[though I'd love to be wrong]. VMWare could do that, but honestly, '98
is all I really want or need: it'll run the one or two 'doze
applications I absolutely require, and is relatively lightweight. 15
second "restart" times are something most Windows users can only dream
about.
-Ken
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