wine users - Sep 2009 - WINE - Ambitious Project

Although difficult  and complex to implement, the WINE project is likely one of
the better if not the best method to run Windows applications on machines
without Windows. Eliminate emulation. Eliminate virtualization. IIRC, I've
been using WINE periodically for nearly a decade and the progress has been
amazing. Although most of my Windows programs are older, the vast majority run
now. I can even use XGPlayer with the TiMidity++ soft synthesizer. Although I
haven't tested recently, I'd surely love using Windows' drivers with
WINE as I have a few programs which require them. I wonder about the
practicality and stability of using such programs with WINE, though. Regardless,
I'm thrilled with the current state of WINE.  The developers deserve our
thanks.

Thanks!

2009/9/23 tpreitzel <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:
> Although difficult ?and complex to implement, the WINE project is likely
one of the better if not the best method to run Windows applications on machines
without Windows. Eliminate emulation. Eliminate virtualization. IIRC, I've
been using WINE periodically for nearly a decade and the progress has been
amazing. Although most of my Windows programs are older, the vast majority run
now. I can even use XGPlayer with the TiMidity++ soft synthesizer. Although I
haven't tested recently, I'd surely love using Windows' drivers with
WINE as I have a few programs which require them. I wonder about the
practicality and stability of using such programs with WINE, though. Regardless,
I'm thrilled with the current state of WINE. ?The developers deserve our
thanks.

Windows drivers won't work with Wine - Wine is just an interface for
applications.

ReactOS is an attempt to make a clone of Windows NT (in the way
GNU/Linux is a clone of Unix), to the point of running Windows
drivers. It's not very far along as yet ...


- d.

There is at least development in making USB devices work - so this won't
include Windows drivers for USB devices? How about ReactOS's whole driver
system being added to Wine once it's finished and suitable?