[SLUG] Win4Lin trial

[Graeme Merrall <graeme@nospam.inetix.com.au>]

Well just grabbed the Win4Lin trial version from www.trelos.com and
apart from not reading the docs properly and having to install Windows
in Win4Lin again, it seems to work pretty well. 

I installed XMetal (my main reason for trying it) and away she went to
problems. It doesn't quite interact with the filesystem as I expected
but being able to copy stuff over into /var/win4lin to get it into
windows was prety handy. Not too mention it follows symlinks. Wee! :)

TCP/IP  was no sweat, ran straight out of the box although Windows
networking is a no-go according to the relase notes. I guess it's hard
to install File Sharing when there is no network adapter :)
Oh and you have to patch your kernel...

All in all though, I think that since the only reason I used to go to
windows was to run XMetal, I think that HDD can now safely be turned
over to MP3 and recreational gaming :)

Cheers,
 Graeme
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