Can wine only be installed on a linux platform or is there a way to download it and run it on windows xp?
jsmith wrote:> Can wine only be installed on a linux platform or is there a way to download it and run it on windows xp?Check out the FAQ: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-530da6f64d194f2b403411016ab937e60d3c2c1c
Wine is a program that enables users to run Windows programs on non-Windows operating systems, including Linux, and Mac OSX. Why would you want to install it on XP? On 6/21/08 wine-users-request at winehq.org wrote:> Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:03:58 -0500 > From: "jsmith" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> > Subject: [Wine] wine only installed on linux? > To: wine-users at winehq.org > Message-ID: <1214060638.m2f.8323 at forum.winehq.org> > > Can wine only be installed on a linux platform or is there a way to download it and run it on windows xp? >
to run older programs with a 98 environment with the use of virutal software or dual booting
To reimage shareware from tarred wineprefixes when the trial expires. [Evil or Very Mad]
2008/6/22 Michael Reich <reich.mikey at gmail.com>:> Wine is a program that enables users to run Windows programs on > non-Windows operating systems, including Linux, and Mac OSX. Why would > you want to install it on XP?For the sheer hack value! er, I mean, to build a more robust Wine and Cygwin/Mingw. Yeah. Alternately, look how Microsoft plan to sell Windows 7 piece by piece: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080323-evidence-mounting-windows-7-going-modular-subscription.html There could be quite a market for Wine on Windows. - d.
That example would be an experience for Windows users!!! Usually one say that the strength of Window is to be sold with computer so that every user (unregarding their abilities in the field) would use Windows without thinking of what they actually had on the computer. Now the user would get a barebone O/S, should he wants to use a browser, he will get the message "the Internet module had not been yet install). Please install the internet module to proceed further. Now they want to watch their holliday picture and get the message "no video software installed -please run the install disk". At least what a windows user will stop saying about Linux is that Linux is an hassle because of having to install bits and pieces afterwards to get something running (whereby I already heard a comment about my Linux that I had too many packages installed and that's why Windows would be better). To finish with, my sister threw Vista out of her computer and took XP because somehow the softwares kept getting online to work properly. I am sure she will like it!! [Laughing]
So far the only way to use wine loader on windows I have found is andlinux but you cannot use sound yet. Also it will permintally take a block of memory to run colinux in. Yes Linux running in windows.
For what I know a mac would probably not be a solution. It is MUCH too hyped and expensive. She would not even dream of being able to buy such a thing (I could but not her - to me a mac is not an option because for 1000 ? I get more memory on a normal PC and what's count to me is CPU + RAM if I don't want to fall asleep with Trados). If Windows goes into a rental solution, she won't be able to pay a rent just to surf once a while - she will be more likely to keep on XP until the computer dies (the XP she uses is actually not even her own license). Linux? In my experience if it's not packaged with a computer she is not technically skilled to cope with it - sorry. It's a nice idea but then you switch it on and: - The router is not configurated properly or at all - The screen has the wrong resolution (totally shifted with black range) - Printer don't work if you didn't think of buying a network printer (I found an information sheet about trying to go around CUPS to use a USB printer but I gave up before it working and WITH a correct driver). - Your keyboard is not recognized properly, you have to set your manual keyboard manually if you want to write a ? on a German keyboard. That's my experience on installing Linux on a computer that wasn't meant for it. I however see good chances for Wine if Windows goes on a rental path and it is already installed on the cheap computer segment (like EE PC)
Paul Johnson wrote:> > > It already is a rental situation. Take a look at the EULA. Microsoft > may revoke your license to use Windows any time, for any reason, without > notice. They also recently change the EULA with XP SP2 (or was it SP1?) > that allows Microsoft arbitrary read/write/delete access to all files on > any Windows machine without notice. Nothing like being subject to > invasive search inside your own home, eh? >This is one of the reasons that I went to Linux. I have set my firewall to block everything I don't want 100% (no automatic update), and I have the stand from 2004 where this was not in place / automatic updates turned off. I don't even let Java make an update. Of course this is not a solution and I am aware of it I know there is a bookeeping software for Austria that is working platinum in Wine according the developer and the AppDB so that I can change the software for the change of the year, I need Trados (for all files formats - most of them Windows proprietary that I can accross) and an OCR scanner and I am pretty optimistic that I can get rid of Windows with the change of the bookeeping software. Everything else had already been more or less replaced. Big brother watching is not my concern and most people are not reading the EULA, but as a business, it could be catastrophic if Windows decides for me to delete a file - after all files are the basis of my work and with no file - no work and no money and if I keep loosing the files of a certain format, I would loose the client too.