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I am planning to purchase a license for win4lin sometime soon.
do the windows applications work better on win4lin compared to that of wine?
Mainly for dreamweaver cs3 and a few other applications.
I have another question regarding this.
I usually work with dreamweaver, mysql and coldfusion on windows. Dreamweaver has inbuilt coldfusion server behaviors. So if on working with dreamweaver, do i need to install windows version for coldfusion and mysql server again using win4lin or will it work by installing coldfusion and mysql on the linux system?
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Wine is an attempt to run Windows applications natively under Linux. Where as win4lin (I think vmware is better but) is a virtual Windows system. So win4lin will have you running Windows just like Windows should run, whereas Wine wouldn't. Therefore win4lin would be the more successful.
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Applications like Dreamweaver will definitely run better in VMware (or VirtualBox, if you prefer) than an emulator like Wine. I have no experience with Win4Lin, but although it is also a virtual environment, I cannot recall hearing of anyone in industry that uses Win4Lin--and many industries are using and investing heavily in VM technology. There is one caveat with VMware and the like: if you need 3D graphics, you will not get them in a virtual machine--at least not at a reasonable price. For things like 3D games, there is still no adequate, top performance replacement for Windows so dual-boot would be the way to go for gaming. (You did not mention it, but I have spent a lot of time with virtual machines and sooner or later the topic always comes up.) ;)