alternative Windoze emulator for Linux $50
Posted by
Doug Fortune
on 2000-05-13 09:01:41 UTC
Dan Falck wrote:
> Ray's May12rev.tgz is in the "Dropbox" at www.linuxcnc.org
>
> I bought "win4lin" from www.trelos.com and installed it on my Mandrake 7.0
> computer last night. I was laughing about it the whole time. It's a way of
> installing Windows under linux and keeping it in line. It runs as an
> application in Linux. I have some screen shots of Windows98 running in a
> little box inside the K desktop-it's a real hoot! So, I am using my favorite
> windows CAM program- Vector in linux now. This might not be the most elegant
> way of getting there- you have to buy win4lin for $50 and you have to have a
> windows install cdrom, but I sure think it will work until more things are
> ported to linux.
>
> I invite more people to submit material for www.linuxcnc.org. We need writers
> who are into CNC, machine tools, EMC, programming, etc....