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Progress on the Road to World DominationProgress on the Road to World DominationPosted Jul 19, 2002 13:12 UTC (Fri) by davecb (subscriber, #1574)Parent article: The road to World Domination
Proprietary software supportWhile there are always programs "you just gotta have", we're not locked to Windows just because the program's authors see it as the platform of choice.I use Microsoft Project a lot, since it's a de-facto standard in my part of the industry. I don't have a free equivalent. But I do run it on Linux, just under Win4Lin. Surprisingly, it runs faster on Linux on an ancient Pentium I that it does on one of our late-model departmental laptops. W4l, you see, uses the Linux filesystem and MMU, which give Project a lovely speed boost over the Win 9X system. As long as I only run one or two programs under linux -> Win4Lin -> Windows, then Windows doesn't have the chance to thrash and slow me down. This is a lot like the early days of DOS: I ran most of my programs there, and a few under CP/M emulation. As more and more companies started shifting to DOS, I ran fewer and fewer programs on CP/M, until they were finally all gone.
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