On 4/22/06, Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Nelson wrote: > > >On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: > > > > > > > >>also is > >>anyone familiar with wine? > >> > >> > > > >As a user. What's your question? If it's generally how to use it, 'wine > ><windows binary name>'. Not all windows programs work under wine, and > >some require tinkering. > > > > How mature is wine these days? The last time I looked at it (admittedly > a long time ago) it was still a windows 3.1 emulator (when 32 bit > windows had long been released). It wasn't particularly stable either. > I've never really seen the point. If windows is your thing, why not use > windows? > > I'm not trying to bait anyone here. I'd be interested to read of what > graphical windows software people out there are usefully running under a > linux roof.
Wine is getting pretty good. They went from alpha status to beta status a while ago, and the current release is 0.9.12. The 0.9.X series has been having a release every few weeks. It is definitely not win 3.1 oriented anymore. It is more like win2k/win98 (but they are adding xp stuff as well). The biggest advance is the addition of DirectX 8 and 9 (no need for Cediga). Most of the apps on the top 10 platinum and gold lists are games (C&C, WoW, Call of Duty), but non-games on the list include Paint Shop Pro 4, Band in a Box 2005, Winamp 5 and Frontpage 2k2. See http://appdb.winehq.org/ for the complete list. I personally play Starcraft and I will probably try Civ 3 soon. I don't really care about any windows productivity apps. Anyway, it is good enough for my needs. Cheers, Kelly
