Win4Lin (was: Re: AutoCAD Alternatives -- revisited)

[John Thompson]

Carroll Grigsby wrote:

> As a followup to the discussion last week, I have since learned read that it 
> is possible to run AutoCad under Win4Lin. Gory details here: 
> https://www.netraverse.com:9100/lists/win4lin-users/List.html
> and run a search for Autocad.
> 
> Disclaimers: Win4Lin isn't free ($90). I've never used it, nor do I know 
> anyone that has. It only works on Win 9x. Linux support is for 2.4 kernels -- 
> RedHat is supported, but nothing about Fedora.

Actually, there is support for Fedora Core 1.  Precompiled kernels are here:

http://www.netraverse.com/member/downloads/files/Kernel-Win4Lin3-Fedora1.0smp_2.4.22.12174-01.i686.rpm
http://www.netraverse.com/member/downloads/files/Kernel-Win4Lin3-Fedora1.0_2.4.22.12174-01.i686.rpm

Patches for other kernels, including 2.6.x kernels are here:

http://www.netraverse.com/member/downloads/kernel_patch.php

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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)