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BlackhawkCKC

Nov 1st, 2003 6:10 pm

Run WinXP in Linux?

ok. This may seem odd, but I was just looking at mandrake 9.2 on ebay, and a screenshot showed WinXP running in Mandrake. How do you do this? I'm increasingly impressed with Linux, but I want to use XP for gaming. Thanks.

caperjack

Nov 1st, 2003 6:28 pm

Re: Run WinXP in Linux?

Linux uses a program calle wine to use windows programs !!!

cscgal

Nov 1st, 2003 9:15 pm

Re: Run WinXP in Linux?

There's an emulator out there called VMWare which lets you create virtual machines. (i.e. install windows in linux or linux in windows). The program is expensive for both platforms however. In addition, it emulates a really slow-end machine, so don't expect to be able to do any gaming through it. (Basically the most you could use it for is a web browser, word processing, light applications, etc.)

BlackhawkCKC

Nov 1st, 2003 11:21 pm

Re: Run WinXP in Linux?

ok. thanks.

Dynam1cz

Nov 2nd, 2003 2:45 am

Re: Run WinXP in Linux?

Also, You can run linux commands in Windows by using a program called "Cygwin". Its a linux enviroment for windows.

big_k105

Nov 4th, 2003 6:59 pm

Re: Run WinXP in Linux?

if you decide to go with linux i would recommend taking a look at winex this version of wine is ment for gaming so it works alittle faster for game play. and sorry i have never used cygwin.

hope this helps

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