[TriLUG] Ticketing system for Linux?

[Vestal, Roy L.]

Kinda want to disagree on one small thing: Win4Lin runs the Win 9x/Me as a
process on as little as 24MB of RAM and so it and all it's child processes
are treaded as one linux process.

With Vmware, you have to "dedicate" specific amounts of RAM and HDD space,
and the CPU time is sort of a linux process.

With that being said, I agree with Ben. If you can run the client under Win
9x/Me, Win4Lin is definitely the way to go. That's what I use to connect to
Applix Helpdesk from within RHL 7.3. Works great.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Pitzer [mailto:uncleben at mindspring.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 7:56 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Ticketing system for Linux?


Will the Remedy client run under Windows 95/98/ME?  If so, it might be
worthwhile to try it on Win4Lin as well.  It really is a pretty decent
package if you want to run your Win9x/ME apps without rebooting.  it does
require a full Windows install and a valid license, but it doesn't create
nearly the performance drain in Linux that VMWare does (since VMWare splits
your system's resources evenly, and Win4Lin only takes what you tell it to
take, and can run on as little as 24MB of RAM).  The performance under
Windows is pretty close to native for most apps, but some of the bigger
memory/proc hogs (e.g. Powerpoint, Photoshop) will need you to bump the
reserved memory up a tad for solid performance.

I realize I may be a bit biased here.  For those who don't know, and in the
interest of full disclosure, I used to work for Netraverse, which while it
wasn't all it was cracked up to be as an employer, does put out a very
competetive and solid Windows emulation/virtual pc app.

Regards,
Ben Pitzer


On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 07:02, Kevin Flanagan wrote:
> 
> >There is apparently an API for it, and we *almost* got it to run from
> >within WINE, but no luck.
> 
> >Jeff
> 
> Anyone tried of VMWare?
> 
> 
> Granted, it'd mean an entire windows install, but......
> 
> Kevin
> 
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