Good night, Friends, a very simple question which is the best the Wine or CrossOver? Thanks
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:48:38 -0600 "fabito" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Good night, > > Friends, a very simple question which is the best the Wine or CrossOver? > > ThanksIts not a very simple question. Wine is free. CrossOver costs money. CrossOver: Uses Wine plus hacked up versions of Wine to run some programs better then pure Wine. CrossOver: Has a nice gui for using it and it makes use of multipliable wine prefix. CrossOver: CrossOver people pay for Wines website hosting and help with writing Wine. Wine: Not much to say, anything that CrossOver can do wine can do it but you need to find patch and compile wine. I think you need to think about this list: Does your program work under Wine? Is your program covered by CrossOver? Do you have the money for CrossOver? Do you have the time / skill to hack about with Wine? I do not have CrossOver. All the programs I want to run under wine I can or are not covered by CrossOver.
fabito wrote:> Good night, > > Friends, a very simple question which is the best the Wine or CrossOver? > >What are you trying to do? Also, what Operating System/Distribution are you using? Lastly, some hardware questions: CPU? Graphics card? Thank you. James McKenzie
James McKenzie wrote:> fabito wrote: > > > Good night, > > > > Friends, a very simple question which is the best the Wine or CrossOver? > > > > > > > What are you trying to do? Also, what Operating System/Distribution are > you using? Lastly, some hardware questions: > > CPU? > Graphics card? > > Thank you. > > James McKenzieI am wanting to use the software the company I work, I use ubuntu 8:10 a 1GB memory and graphics card just to monitor 128kbs. Thanks
fabito <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote on Feb 14th:> >James McKenzie wrote: >> fabito wrote: >> >> > Good night, >> > >> > Friends, a very simple question which is the best the Wine or CrossOver? >> > >> > >> > >> What are you trying to do? Also, what Operating System/Distribution are >> you using? Lastly, some hardware questions: >> >> CPU? >> Graphics card? >> >> Thank you. >> >> James McKenzie > > >I am wanting to use the software the company I work, I use ubuntu 8:10 a 1GB memory and graphics card just to monitor 128kbs. >Thanks >Sounds like a program to monitor a network connection. This may or may not work on Linux depending on your network card's drivers. I would suggest attempting to install Wine 1.1.14 and installing the program through Wine. Then attempt to run it. If it does not run 'out of the box', you should look for your program (unless it is produced in-house) on the Applications Database to see if it will work, at all. The same exists for CrossOver for Linux on the CodeWeavers web site. Some programs will not run on Wine and Crossover due to the methods they use to access hardware. James McKenzie
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James Mckenzie wrote:> fabito <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote on Feb 14th: > > > > > James McKenzie wrote: > > > > > fabito wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Good night, > > > > > > > > Friends, a very simple question which is the best the Wine or CrossOver? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What are you trying to do? Also, what Operating System/Distribution are > > > you using? Lastly, some hardware questions: > > > > > > CPU? > > > Graphics card? > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > James McKenzie > > > > > > > > > I am wanting to use the software the company I work, I use ubuntu 8:10 a 1GB memory and graphics card just to monitor 128kbs. > > Thanks > > > > > Sounds like a program to monitor a network connection. This may or may not work on Linux depending on your network card's drivers. I would suggest attempting to install Wine 1.1.14 and installing the program through Wine. Then attempt to run it. If it does not run 'out of the box', you should look for your program (unless it is produced in-house) on the Applications Database to see if it will work, at all. The same exists for CrossOver for Linux on the CodeWeavers web site. Some programs will not run on Wine and Crossover due to the methods they use to access hardware. > > James McKenzieThanks James, then I will continue using Wine 1.1.14, CrossOver will not appear to improve performance. Thank you very much.