Re: three questions about debian
On 4/22/06, Doofus <doofus@bulldoghome.com> wrote:
> Christopher Nelson wrote:
>
> >On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>also is
> >>anyone familiar with wine?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >As a user. What's your question? If it's generally how to use it, 'wine
> ><windows binary name>'. Not all windows programs work under wine, and
> >some require tinkering.
> >
>
> How mature is wine these days? The last time I looked at it (admittedly
> a long time ago) it was still a windows 3.1 emulator (when 32 bit
> windows had long been released). It wasn't particularly stable either.
> I've never really seen the point. If windows is your thing, why not use
> windows?
>
> I'm not trying to bait anyone here. I'd be interested to read of what
> graphical windows software people out there are usefully running under a
> linux roof.
Wine is getting pretty good. They went from alpha status to beta status
a while ago, and the current release is 0.9.12. The 0.9.X series has been
having a release every few weeks. It is definitely not win 3.1 oriented
anymore. It is more like win2k/win98 (but they are adding xp stuff as well).
The biggest advance is the addition of DirectX 8 and 9 (no need for Cediga).
Most of the apps on the top 10 platinum and gold lists are games
(C&C, WoW, Call of Duty), but non-games on the list include
Paint Shop Pro 4, Band in a Box 2005, Winamp 5 and Frontpage 2k2.
See http://appdb.winehq.org/ for the complete list.
I personally play Starcraft and I will probably try Civ 3 soon. I don't really
care about any windows productivity apps. Anyway, it is good enough
for my needs.
Cheers,
Kelly
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