I am concidering taking the Jump to Linux. I have SuSE. 6.3 at the moment.. but don't want to loose some of my M.$. Apps.. So I hear about wine.. as being able to run some of the apps.. this is great.. News.. for the Weary anyway.. So does this Wine work with SuSE.. Please forgive me I haven't even played with Linux. yet.. just trying to get all my questions sorta answered before I wage battle and try to learn a new OS.. Thanks for your time.. (In Advance)
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:34:57 +0100, "OldToker" <oldtoker1969@hotmail.com> wrote:>I am concidering taking the Jump to Linux.<snip> Don't consider Wine. Wine is not for complete beginners. Take a look at commercial products instead. Gerard
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, OldToker wrote:> I am concidering taking the Jump to Linux. I have SuSE. 6.3 at the moment.. > but don't want to loose some of my M.$. Apps.. So I hear about wine.. as > being able to run some of the apps.. this is great.. News.. for the Weary > anyway.. > > So does this Wine work with SuSE.. Please forgive me I haven't even played > with Linux. yet.. just trying to get all my questions sorta answered before > I wage battle and try to learn a new OS.. > > Thanks for your time.. (In Advance) >Gerard raises a good point. Wine is a wide-open software development project, on an average day maybe we fix ten or twenty bugs and introduce two or three new ones, plus or minus 2 orders of magnitude. The overall design of the beast may change (it has before), along with the format and location of the config files. Error messages and doco were mostly written by programmers, for the enlightenment of other programmers who might be willing to contribute to the project. I _did_ take on Wine as a linux newbie, I've enjoyed it, but I am a programmer by nature, and had 20 years experience with an OS that has the slashes the right way in the filesystem (/, not \ :-). In many ways, any competent operating system is very much like linux - that lets out anything by microsoft, which isn't. Microsoft software packages are booby-trapped against any non-microsoft OS. If the M$ apps you mean are MSIE and MS LookOut Distress! and M$Office, and you need them for your work, look into VMware or Win4lin. If you mean windows programs you wrote yourself, look into winemaker (included in Wine). If you mean windows programs in general, you might like to try Wine, but I make no guarantees. OTOH, she had warts, and I wouldn't like you to be totally discouraged. Wine doesn't care which flavor of Linux you use, as long as it runs on X86 hardware and has a complete set of program-development software, libraries, and header files. I believe SuSE makes usable rpm's of Wine, although of course they are obsolete, and no one wants to debug a problem in an obsolete software package. Please read <wine>/README. Lawson ---oof--- ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.
Don't get me wrong i quit doing windows years ago, but if your "jump" to Linux is going to be based on using your apps with wine then you should be checking to see if anyone has them running on wine rather than whether wine will run on Suse. it's been a while since i use Suse, but i can't beleave that it wouldn't. what are your Apps? Have you checked the Apps-database to see if they've been tested? Are you certain that there is not a Linux app that will work? do you have a LUG in your area? you might get with them to see if they can help with the "jump" Regardless, good luck On Saturday 24 November 2001 16:34, you wrote:> I am concidering taking the Jump to Linux. I have SuSE. 6.3 at the > moment.. but don't want to loose some of my M.$. Apps.. So I hear about > wine.. as being able to run some of the apps.. this is great.. News.. for > the Weary anyway.. > > So does this Wine work with SuSE.. Please forgive me I haven't even played > with Linux. yet.. just trying to get all my questions sorta answered before > I wage battle and try to learn a new OS.. > > Thanks for your time.. (In Advance) > > > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
The difference between SuSE 6.3 and SuSE 7.3 is as big as between Windows 3.1 and Windows 2000. I strongly advise you to get yourself a SuSE 7.3 box, it's well worth the money if only for the pile of printed manuals and user guides that come with it (extra important since you're a self proclaimed newbie). SuSE is well ahead of the others in this respect. Wine does run on SuSE and is even included (at least from v7.1, I don'( know about 6.3). Because you are a newbie I suggest you either stick with SuSE's Wine or to use Codeweaver's Wine (www.codeweavers.com, free). Codeweaver's version is in my opinion the best solution for newbies or for anybody who doesn't want to tinker with config files. If you really want to quit Windows as your main OS but still need to use some Windows applications then Wine may not be your best choice. Wine does run a whole bunch of Windows apps but it's not guaranteed. I use it myself for a small Windows encryption tool. If you wanna be 100% sure then maybe VMWare Express (www.vmware.com, not free, real easy), Win4Lin (a bit more difficult for a newbie) or a dual boot configuration (SuSE can install Linux on a PC where Windows is already available) are better. Anyway, give Wine a try. If it runs your apps, fine, then you got yourself a cheap solution. If it doesn't, then there's always VMWare or dual boot. OldToker wrote:> I am concidering taking the Jump to Linux. I have SuSE. 6.3 at the > moment.. but don't want to loose some of my M.$. Apps.. So I hear about > wine.. as being able to run some of the apps.. this is great.. News.. for > the Weary anyway.. > > So does this Wine work with SuSE.. Please forgive me I haven't even played > with Linux. yet.. just trying to get all my questions sorta answered > before I wage battle and try to learn a new OS.. > > Thanks for your time.. (In Advance)