Re: A rave about wine

[Pollywog <croak@shadypond.com>]

On 2001.12.17 21:08 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 17/12/01 Andrew Perrin did speaketh:
>
> > Greetings folks-
> >
> > I just wanted to tell you about an out-of-the-box success with wine. A
> > textbook company sent me a Windows-only CD-ROM with software for
> creating
> > exams from their texbooks. (As it turns out the software is nearly
> > useless, but that's neither here nor there.)  I decided to try it under
> > wine (debian woody distribution version), not expecting much.
> >
> > It worked flawlessly, no hacks or problems whatsoever! I'm very
> impressed
> > with the progress that's been made in the last year or so since I last
> > tried it.
>
> I tried to install quicktime with it from the .exe a few days ago, and it
> just
> hung.

There is a commercial product that allows you to run Quicktime on Linux.

http://www.codeweavers.com  and it is called the Crossover plugin.
It is based on WINE.


--
Andrew