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There is no dearth of software that can help you run that indispensable Windows app over Linux. Win4Lin has managed to survive through the years as an inexpensive tool for people who like to pay for support. The, available for $30 a pop, has shrugged off the shortcomings of its predecessor and delivers on its 'near native-performance' promise. When I, the software wasn't easy to work with, thanks to its half-baked graphical user interface and over-reliance on the command line. It was on the edge of usability, with poor hardware support. Win4Lin 5 promises improvements on all these fronts, along with special pricing for desktop users, especially those running Ubuntu. I tested W4L on two dual-core machines, a 2.0GHz E4400 with 1GB RAM and a 1.8GHz E6300 with 2GB RAM.

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Both machines were running Mandriva Spring 2008.1 and Ubuntu 7.10 as the host OS, and I couldn't see any performance difference between the two distros. Like previous versions, W4L 5 is based on the open source processor emulator and its KQEMU performance accelerator component. You can install W4L from both RPM and.deb precompiled binaries, which are available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Installation is well documented for popular distros like Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Mandriva, and involves fetching the GCC compiler and kernel sources from a distro's online repository and installing the binaries with either the rpm or dpkg command.

W4L is designed to run only Windows as a guest operating system. You can install several Windows guests, but can run only two simultaneously. Download game tarzan jar 320x240. Powerful GUI W4L 5 features a simple, well-laid-out, and easy-to-navigate GUI that lets you specify global settings that apply to all guest instances under W4L, install Windows guests, and tweak various guest settings. When installing a Windows guest, you can use sliders to alter the RAM assigned to the guest and set the maximum size of the virtual drive. In addition to installing Windows from the CD/DVD drive, you can also install from an image. The users guide suggests users make an ISO image of their Windows optical media and use that instead of the disc to cut down on install time. You can also install Windows from a Windows Upgrade CD, but in this case you'll have to point the W4L installer to the location of the original Windows for verification purposes.

W4L also allows you to run an unattended Windows installation by asking you to enter the product key in the guest installation interface before it installs the software. W4L runs Windows inside of a window on the desktop, which when resized automatically adjusts the Windows resolution to fit the screen. This worked perfectly on my 17- and 19-inch widescreen monitors, and when running in full screen mode, Windows automatically resized to occupy the whole screen. W4L also automatically configures sound playback and recording, but you can alter the guest settings to force it to use ALSA, OSS, or EsounD sound servers.