Re: Wine
  By: MIKE POWELL to SAM ALEXANDER on Sat Apr 29 2006 09:26 pm

Hi Mike,

 > ³ What's neat though, a friend loaded Fedora Core 4 (or whatever the latest
 > ³ is) and Wine totally worked with probably 90% of the programs he loaded.
 > ³ Literally using Wine he executed the Setup.exe and it installed with no
 > ³ problems!  I'm talking about Red Alert 2, MS Word and Excel 2000, and a to
 > ³ of utils we use up at work.  I haven't tried this on Ubuntu yet, but I hop
 > ³ it's there too -- if not I'll be downloading it :)
 > ÀÄ[SA=>MP]
 > 
 > After screwing around with the latest wine today, I can say a couple of
 > things about it:
 > 
 > (1) it is still way, way behind Windows 98, which is itself many years old.
 > It couldn't run any of the few Windows programs that I actually use anymore.
 > Having things "almost" or "sort of" work does not
cut it, in my book; and

It depends on the app you want to run, and some apps do run flawlessly via 
Wine.  

 > 
 > (2) I have to wonder why your friend was loading linux when it sounds like
 > he'd be better off sticking with windows, if he's wanting to run windows
 > office, windows games, etc.
 > 

My friend and coworker who was trying to install various apps on Linux with 
Wine was just testing to see what it would load.  You're right, someone 
needs to run an OS that fits their needs, but many folks (like me) want an 
OS without all the issues of Windows.  I know , I know, Windows does run 
well if someone knows how to keep it clean of garbage, but it goes further 
for me.  I enjoy using Linux and OSX for that matter because I love the 
powerful command-line.  Windows is VERY lacking when it comes to command 
line, and I wish they'd include a Bash-type shell with Vista.  If they, 
like Apple, built Windows on a Unix-style kernel the world would indeed be 
a much happier place :)

Sam


---
Sam Alexander - sam.alexander(at)sidebandbbs(dot)com
    icq: 5386757  []  AIM/Y!: samalex1701  []  Skype: samalex01
"Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not
understanding, Understanding is not wisdom." -- Cliff Stoll 

---
 þ Synchronet þ SideBand BBS -[ sidebandbbs.com ]- Lorena, Texas - Your
source for Amateur Radio
--- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32