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A glass of "Wine" Anyone?

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Refalm:

quote:Digit: basically, wine is supposed to allow you to run all the software you were using on windows on Linux.
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Wine never said: "we guarantee that you can run all Winblows softwarez on your Linuz install, LOL".

There's no warranty, so instead, be greatful for the Windows programs that do run on Linux  

Or check out CrossOver Office or Cedega for commercial solutions that do guarantee certain things.

Digit:
Thinking out loud again

ok.  so what about emulators (sorry, i cant remember their names)... do they then still suffer the same problems and hurdles of Microshafts secret coding?

wine...
when starting up (*ahem* TRYING to start up) a program using wine, it gives a little shpeal about how it might work better if you had a win OS instaled somewhere on your machine.  cant give u the exact details of the message cos i dont have my machine with me just now.  ... so it looks like a dual boot might be the way to go after all. damn.  that means i'll have microsoft software installed on my machine again.  ew.  i better work on getting my next computer finished.

woops... almost forgot to check out crossover and cedega.....

cedega sounds great... if i wanted to play games.    
i dont.
     

   :D  
so...
maybe i'm going about this the wrong way.  to continue to seek out the software designed to run on windows and a way to run them on my new OS, i'm only encouraging them to continue to develope for windows and ignore Linux and other opperating systems.
I should be looking up their Linux alternatives!

... and maybe sending a few emails to software developers (adobe being my number 1 priority) and others to get behind Linux like the hardware guys (IBM for example) have done might help push things forward a little too.

thnx for the replies everyone, and big thanks to refalm/bob for the links.    

[ October 02, 2004: Message edited by: Digit ]

WMD:

quote:when starting up (*ahem* TRYING to start up) a program using wine, it gives a little shpeal about how it might work better if you had a win OS instaled somewhere on your machine. cant give u the exact details of the message cos i dont have my machine with me just now. ... so it looks like a dual boot might be the way to go after all. damn. that means i'll have microsoft software installed on my machine again. ew. i better work on getting my next computer finished.
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Well, it depends.  With Windows really installed, you can use the native DLLs instead of Wine's, but that isn't always necessary (and, in fact, some work better with Wine's stuff).  For example, last week at school I got the game Pocket Tanks for Windows to work without use of any Windows DLLs (I actually had the Wine config pointing to a "fake" windows directory instead of the real one on the machine).  I was shocked that I pulled that off.

I myself haven't tried to install any programs directly through Wine; I've only run them from an existing Windows partition.  The installer is known to work for some apps, but I don't know personally how that works or where stuff gets installed.

Refalm:
Btw, this link is very, very, very useful:

http://frankscorner.org/

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