Well, after spending a day of working with trying to install an assortment of progams on my Wine installation for SuSe 10.0, I'm giving up. Every time I get almost to the point where I think it could be useful, something happens. The latest was a complaint at the very end of the extensive install for Brittanica encyclopedia, saying something couldn't be found. Why does everything have to allow you to get to the end before complaining? I think it's a ploy by Microsoft agents within the open source community, to demoralize the users so they'll either give up or spend more valuable hours of their lives futilely trying to escape the Microsoft net. So I say, just pay up, and have fun doing something less frustrating. And when Windows crashes with all your data, at least you'll have the satisfaction that you got to almost completely neglect it up to that point. -TR
Not everything is going to work. Make sure you 1) have the latest Wine installed and 2) review http://appdb.winehq.org to see which apps have been recorded as being tested. That way, you don't waste your entire day trying to get something to work. And don't forget to use this list as a resource for getting help; not for one to rant in! :) :) Hiji --- TR <tmst@nethere.com> wrote:> Well, after spending a day of working with trying to > install an assortment of > progams on my Wine installation for SuSe 10.0, I'm > giving up. Every time I > get almost to the point where I think it could be > useful, something happens. > The latest was a complaint at the very end of the > extensive install for > Brittanica encyclopedia, saying something couldn't > be found. > > Why does everything have to allow you to get to the > end before complaining? I > think it's a ploy by Microsoft agents within the > open source community, to > demoralize the users so they'll either give up or > spend more valuable hours > of their lives futilely trying to escape the > Microsoft net. So I say, just > pay up, and have fun doing something less > frustrating. And when Windows > crashes with all your data, at least you'll have the > satisfaction that you > got to almost completely neglect it up to that > point. > > -TR > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.org > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users >__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Hiji wrote at 11:19 on 21 Mar 2006:> Not everything is going to work. Make sure you 1) > have the latest Wine installed ... > > --- TR <tmst@nethere.com> wrote: > > > Well, after spending a day of working with trying to > > install an assortment of > > programs on my Wine installation for SuSe 10.0, ...My advice to someone who wants to use Wine is to find the latest version of Wine that supports the application(s) for which you *need* it and refuse to allow so called security fixes that simply revert Wine to an obsolete copy if a working recent version also plugs the security hole. When new versions of Wine are released and as you have time, try them. It is my experience that you can easily revert to the version you were using previously in case anything gets broken by the newer version. With SuSE it is not always easy to use a recent Wine release. I also use a SuSE distribution (9.3) and I use Wine (0.9.8). In order to keep using a recent version of Wine I must avoid loading the "security update" that SuSE keeps trying to feed me. it is the 20050211 snapshot and is being supplied under the guise that it plugs the WMF vulnerability. The reason that I use Wine 0.9.8 instead of a newer version is that Wine is supporting Pegasus Mail (PM) on my system and both Wine 0.9.9 and Wine 0.9.10 cause PM to shut down when the message composition window gets closed. This issue has been mentioned on the Wine developers list. -- Jim