IN THIS CHAPTER
Truly one of the great things about Linux is its flexibility. You are not always forced to abandon your old platform or your favorite applications when you make the move to Linux. With enough hard drive space, you can dual boot Windows on a separate partition and share files across file systems. Tools exist that allow you to run many Windows applications directly in Linux. You can even emulate MacOS Classic without a PowerPC. This chapter is all about using these tools. Some are built in to your SUSE Linux installation, others are freely available for download, and some commercial products are available to purchase as well. You will learn about the Wine Windows emulation project and its Crossover Office commercial spinoff. Win4Lin is another commercial product that allows you to run Windows 98 or Windows 2000/XP applications directly in Linux. VMware uses a virtual machine approach to installing and running other operating systems and applications. Basilisk II is the MacOS emulator, and DOSBox recaptures some of the earlier days of personal computing. Finally, you'll take a peek at a new project that's been gaining a lot of attention recently, the Xen Virtualization Project. |