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Date:      Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:25:20 -0500
From:      Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com>
To:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Win4BSD -- any comments or experiences?
Message-ID:  <d356c5630904240925y25a2ec11m429e57001880c073@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090424151827.GA13967@rebelion.Sisis.de>
References:  <20090424151827.GA13967@rebelion.Sisis.de>

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On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in Spanish, I've got a pointer to
> this software:
>
> http://win4bsd.com/wp/win4bsd-free-for-non-commercial-use/
>
> Any comments about or test results in compare with Qemu?
> Thx
>
>        matthias
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I played with win4bsd for awhile.  It works well for normal desktop usage.
Unfortunately, virtual os setups do not handle complex data analysis of
extremely large data sets well.  I think it has to do with memory
usage/management.  Otherwise, I liked win4bsd a lot.

Andrew



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