What's happening at Win4Lin

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:03:11 +0000, Crashdamage

Don't you find the performance of W4LPro dreadful? I have both W4L9x and W4LPro. I only use Pro for Quickbooks which won't run on W4L9x, I use W4L9x for everything else. W4L9x is extremely fast and it's well integrated in to the the Linux environment. You can cut from Xemacs on Linux and paste into Word on Windows, you can't do that with Pro. Printers work flawlessly on 9x, on Pro you generally have to print something twice because it doesn't see the printer the first time. But the most important flaw in Pro is the performance, it's dog slow. The latest version has improved the performance considerably from the older versions but it's still unpleasantly slow, previously it was unusable. I'm running it on very fast hardware, A64 3800+ with 2.5G of RAM. I can't imagine what it would be like on older hardware (W4L9X ran well on a 500MHz PIII, on an A64 it screams). I've given Pro 1G of RAM, disabled sound, and I'm using W2K SP4 not XP. I don't have any antivirus programs to slow it down either. Hopefully they can improve the performance of Pro so that W4L9x will become unnecessary but for now there is no subsbreastute for W4L9x.