newbie question, I have 2 boxes at work, a gig athlon and a p2. as a large (but ever decreasing amount) of my work is done with windows I have 2k installed on my high spec machine and I have settled upon freebsd on my second. I plan to install WINE onto my main machein, is this pratical? will i pull my hair out? also do I need a linux dist (eg Mandrake or Debian) or will WINE + FreeBSD + Linux Binary do me okay? -- Gav Do Unto Others As You Would Have Others Do Unto You - ONLY HARDER!
Gav wrote:> newbie question, > > I have 2 boxes at work, a gig athlon and a p2. as a large (but ever > decreasing amount) of my work is done with windows I have 2k installed on my > high spec machine and I have settled upon freebsd on my second. > > I plan to install WINE onto my main machein, is this pratical? will i pull > my hair out? also do I need a linux dist (eg Mandrake or Debian) or will > WINE + FreeBSD + Linux Binary do me okay? >Your questions are a little bit starving as far as information is concerned. Take a look at the applications database at http://appdb.codeweavers.com/ Everything depends on what you really need to do. Some apps run pretty well others not at all and anything can be temporarily broken at any time during development. Mind you: Wine is alpha state. What does that tell you about using it in a production environment? Can you take the risk? But if you want to participate in debugging Wine and Windows applications you are welcome. Among the many Linux users everybody running FreeBSD is welcome to help making Wine stable on many platforms. Answers to your questions can be found here: http://www.winehq.com/ You will also find daily builds and FreeBSD emulator ports at http://www.winehq.com/download.shtml Wine is a thrilling project, I wish I could dedicate more time... Regards, Ike -- . . Eike Lantzsch <___> CdC 1509 ASUNCION PY ____|\|\ ____ .ooo../ www.geocities.com/cgelantzsch/index.html _________\ \_____/ rattle, aim, sting, wait, incorporate
eikelan@gmx.net (Eike Lantzsch) wrote in news:slrn9naq9m.8f1.eikelan@ID- 77364.user.dfncis.de:> Your questions are a little bit starving as far as information is > concerned.DOH! I must admit that I have confused WINE with VMWare, I had not really heard much about WINE but I must admit it is fasinating and I will try to learn more. -- Gav Do Unto Others As You Would Have Others Do Unto You - ONLY HARDER!
Gav wrote:> eikelan@gmx.net (Eike Lantzsch) wrote in news:slrn9naq9m.8f1.eikelan@ID- > 77364.user.dfncis.de: > > > Your questions are a little bit starving as far as information is > > concerned. > > DOH! I must admit that I have confused WINE with VMWare, I had not really > heard much about WINE but I must admit it is fasinating and I will try to > learn more. >If you are looking for something like VMware and you still like to try alpha software then go look here: http://www.plex86.org/ "Alpha" in this case means: "hard to install", even harder than Wine. Have fun... ;-) Regards, Ike -- . . Eike Lantzsch <___> CdC 1509 ASUNCION PY ____|\|\ ____ .ooo../ www.geocities.com/cgelantzsch/index.html _________\ \_____/ rattle, aim, sting, wait, incorporate