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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