Michael Leone on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:20:06 -0400


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[PLUG] Fw: [Win4Lin-users] Win4Lin 3.0.5 Available.


As additional information to Wed's presentation on running Windows within
Linux, here's an announcement of the latest version of Win4Lin, which is
supposed to fix the speed issues in the latest release.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Badger" <mbadger@netraverse.com>
To: <win4lin-users@lists.netraverse.com>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 2:33 PM
Subject: [Win4Lin-users] Win4Lin 3.0.5 Available.


> Win4lin 3.0.5 is now available via the Installer's update feature. For the
> curious, this
> will be rpm Win4Lin-5.2.5b-d.i386.rpm. It has one significant fix, see
below.
>
> Changes in 3.0.5
>
> Fix for performance problem
> ·       "Win4Lin 3.0 slower than 2.0". This problem was due to a certain
> change in the memory paging implementation from Linux 2.2 to Linux 2.4
that
> resulted in some Win4Lin code working inefficiently. Fixed by optimizing
> for the case that was being done inefficiently. (bug report # 585)
>
>
> Changes in 3.0.4
>
> Fix for Internet Explorer
> ·       Internet Explorer becomes very slow and fails to load images after
> a period of use. (On 2.4 kernel systems only.) (bug report # 597)
>
> Changes in 3.0.3
>
> Fix for Freelance
> ·       When running a slideshow in Freelance, if the slide show is run in
> a rapid manner, it will hang the session completely. Even Shift-F12 will
> not work. (bug report # 583)
> ·       Error in Freelance when choose pagesort. (bug report # 588) (This
> problem apparently can occur on native windows too sometimes according to
> the Lotus Website. However, the divide by zero can be caught
worked-around,
> so we do.)
>
> Changes in 3.0.2
>
> The 3.0.2 version had fixes related to installing evaluation versions.
>
> Changes in 3.0.1
>
> The 3.0.1 version had lots of changes, a lot of them related to installing
> the downloaded version. (The 3.0.1 version was the first download version
> of Win4Lin 3.0). This included adding support for Mandrake 8.0.
> Important bug fixes:
> ·       Fix for Bug 543: Windows 98 Upgrade compliance check causes VM86
DIED.
> ·       Fix for bug 537: Cut and Paste of text in MS Excel causes whole
> Win4Lin/Windows session to crash.
> ·       Fix problem with shutdown, or network card removal, on Red Hat 7.1
> systems.
>
>
> Regards,
> Mike Badger
>
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> https://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users
>
>
>


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