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

[Timothy Payne]

On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 12:58, John Thompson wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> 
> -John (john at os2.dhs.org)
> But will it work for core 2?  I have a request in to them but I saw something about needing ver. 5.0 or above to use 2.6
Tim...

PS I'll post their reply, if any.