Re: three questions about debian
thats the same reason i want to use wine Christopher
Nelson, but to play medal of honor with or without
gamespy, i am a little addicted to the game, but to
answer, i chose to switch to linux, after years of
hating constantly unstable windows os, winxp has had
the same error twice in a month after getting a
service pack 2 update, so i felt linux would be better
in a way.
--- Christopher Nelson <chris@cavein.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 12:56:27AM +0100, Doofus
> 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.
>
> It runs a lot of stuff written for the 32 bit
> windows systems now. I
> haven't had it in itself be unstable in awhile, just
> not fully support
> some programs.
>
> > I've never really seen the point. If windows is
> your thing, why not use
> > windows?
>
> Generally I agree with you. Some people are tied
> for work reasons to a
> Windows application or two, though, despite their
> preference for Free
> software.
>
> > 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.
>
> I've mostly used it to run my extensive collection
> of win98 games and
> the GURPS Character Builder (though the 4th edition
> one does not work
> under wine). I've also seen it used for Lotus Notes
> by a person whose
> company requires its use.
>
> Now, however, most of my gaming need is filled by
> nethack, so I don't
> use wine much anymore. But not everybody has the
> option, such as that
> person who need Lotus Notes for work.
>
> --
> Christopher Nelson -- chris@cavein.org
>
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