NetTraverse Win4Lin - Run Windows on Linux
Filed in: Linux, Microsoft, Technology — April 27th, 2004
No, this time not Linux for Windows. This is Windows for Linux. With Win4Lin, you can run windows applications like Microsoft Office XP, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe PhotoShop on Linux in native mode, just same as running on Windows.
However, you are required to have Microsoft Windows 9x/ME license for each user in order to use Win4Lin. In short, you need to buy Microsoft Windows 9x/ME + Win4Lin to enjoy running windows applications on Linux.
Thought:
The ability to run popular windows softwares(Dreamweaver, PhotoShop…) on Linux is great. But the cost is same if not more, because required to buy Win4Lin + Microsoft Windows 9x/ME.
Don’t think there is bright future for this software. If the company willing to buy Microsoft Windows, why it want to waste the resources to implement it on Linux? Since, at the end, the result is the same - run Windows softwares. 
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April 27th, 2004 at 12:48 pm
hhhhmmmmm i thought before this got something call Lindows already ?
April 27th, 2004 at 2:12 pm
No, Lindows(now known as Linspire) is just another linux distro.
The ‘Lindows’ is a misleading name
April 27th, 2004 at 2:14 pm
How is this different from WINE ?
April 27th, 2004 at 2:57 pm
WINE does not need you to buy MS Windows, Win4Lin need.
Win4Lin is running Windows on Linux to run Windows softwares. So, it has better performance when running windows softwares, compare with WINE.
April 28th, 2004 at 1:16 am
Yeah, my tots are same too. Wondering what market are they targeting at?