I have Wine working, and my Windows XP-installation mounted as read only. Reading the FAQ, I noticed: "DON'T configure Wine to use an NT-based Windows install (NT, Win2K, WinXP)." So... is it futile to try to get XP-applications running on my Linux-box? Should I install them from Wine, and if so, how? "wine SETUP.EXE"? I'm mostly interested in running Instant Messanger (MSN) 6.0 from wine at the moment. Has anyone here managed to do this? What would I need to do? - M
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 00:51, Magnus Solvang wrote:> I have Wine working, and my Windows XP-installation mounted > as read only. Reading the FAQ, I noticed: "DON'T configure Wine > to use an NT-based Windows install (NT, Win2K, WinXP)." > So... is it futile to try to get XP-applications running on my > Linux-box? Should I install them from Wine, and if so, how? > "wine SETUP.EXE"? > > I'm mostly interested in running Instant Messanger (MSN) 6.0 from > wine at the moment. Has anyone here managed to do this? What would > I need to do? > > - Mdownload and install aMSN. it looks almost the same as MSN 6, has a slightly different set of features, and doesn't require going through wine (it's tcl/tk, so it can run *nix native), which is a fair bit of a performance gain (at least on my old system) http://amsn.sourceforge.net IIRC -- You're only young once. you can be immature forever.
Quoting Magnus Solvang (magnus@solvang.net): | I have Wine working, and my Windows XP-installation mounted | as read only. Reading the FAQ, I noticed: "DON'T configure Wine | to use an NT-based Windows install (NT, Win2K, WinXP)." | So... is it futile to try to get XP-applications running on my | Linux-box? Should I install them from Wine, and if so, how? | "wine SETUP.EXE"? | | I'm mostly interested in running Instant Messanger (MSN) 6.0 from | wine at the moment. Has anyone here managed to do this? What would | I need to do? Okay, before anyone else advices me to use other programs: I asked if and how I could start MSN 6.0 in Wine. I didn't want a lot of advices on which chat-program I should use. I already use Gaim, and is quite happy with it, but I wanted to know if I could use IM 6.0 from my Windows XP-partition. I want to learn about Wine, not which application the rest of you suggest. I should have mentioned this in my first posting. Sorry about that. - M