Re: wine questions
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On Friday 26 Jul 2002 3:06 pm, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I just have some general questions about wine.
>
> - Are windows apps supported which are using a network connection?
Yes
> - Whatabout spyware? Is it a problem if I run a windows app which is
> considered to be spyware? Can it for example even catch keyboard events or
> something else even on a Linux system? Or are there in general any other
> potential security risks involved with running a windows application?
Wine only has access to the files you configure it to. Thus you can have a
$home/wine directory which is the only one writable by it and it cant effect
anything else.
> - And a Windows version must be already installed, right?
No, it is completely independent of windows, but can use the windows dlls if
configured properly.
99% of Windows applications have a linux alternative which is better, so look
around before using wine for everything - and remember that even if websites
dont mention it, you can apt-get install most apps. The big exception to this
is games, which WineX (www.transgaming.com) does a VERY good job of.
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