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Re: Two Items, One: Does Linus know?, Two: Appleshare over AFS
> Hi,
>
> Just yesterday, Linus Torvalds was here at MIT giving a talk. He had
> made mention of DOSEMU, Wine, and the iBCS2 compatibility on Linux, but
> he did not mention Executor, which I think is close to the level of
> DOSEMU in stability. Executor could be a big winner with Linus if it
> can run PowerPoint since he did his slides in PowerPoint for Windows
> and was complaining having to switch and such and how Wine isn't quite
> up to it. Don't know if he gives a lot of talks (don't think he does)
> but he could be good publicity.
Executor is _more_ stable than DOSEMU, at least in my
experience. The dosemu that runs under X, for example, only does text
modes (although the current plans may change that, at least for Windows).
> Jesse Hong
Stephen
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