Windows Coexistence is the key to Linux and Solaris competitiveness
AUSTIN, TX -- Virtual Bridges, a provider of desktop and enterprise virtualization solutions for business, announced today the release of a major upgrade to its award-winning Win4* Family of Desktop Products.
“Virtualization in general offers a lot of potential, but Win4Lin specifically delivers it. With the master Win4Lin image it's easy to build a Windows Win4Lin desktop that is impervious to virus and malware,” said Jon Watson, President KPG Media Corp. “It's easy to back up entire Windows installations, which previously would have required expensive applications and a high degree of technical skill. It's even easy to run Windows apps floating on a Linux/BSD/Solaris desktop.”
The Virtual Bridges Win4* brand professional-grade virtualization products help businesses extend their Open Source desktops without additional hardware costs. There are three Win4 Desktop products: Win4Lin Pro Desktop allowing users to run Windows applications on the major Linux Distributions, Win4Solaris allowing users to run Windows applications on Sun Solaris and Win4BSD supporting users of FreeBSD and PCBSD.
Win4 4.5 Desktop Highlights include:
• Support for multimedia-rich LTSP setups, including remote audio playback and recording to/from the terminals (Win4Lin only)
• Full bridged networking functionality and options
• Support for newer Linux host kernels (2.6.22 and up) (Win4Lin only)
• New full-screen Windows session option from Linux login screen (Win4Lin only)
• Improved, dynamic single-application launch capabilities
• Automatic, seamless default color printing, and improve printing performance
• Improve mouse tracking and click response on remote displays
• Enhanced audio support on Solaris Workstations and Sun Rays,
• Including recording capabilities (Win4Solaris only)
• Maintenance roll-up from 4.0, many other bug fixes and minor enhancements
• Automatic support for ALSA playback and recording (Win4Lin only)
• Automatic detection and support for EsounD playback and recording
