why do we need them for running wine on debian?

Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University 
Jerusalem Israel



On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> Hi People,
> 
> Well, I just finished 3 hours busting a hard disk here to install Lindows
> preview here..
> 
> What can I say - lots of people will hate it (stanard user works as ROOT!),
> but it's based on debian woody, so after installation you start playing a lot
> with apt (you don't even get gcc!).
> 
> The installation is very cute and it's actually a very enhanced wine +
> rebusted Corel Linux
> 
> But thats leave all of this crap behind us -- lets go to the issue I wanted
> to write this email:
> 
> Open your browser and look at the following screenshot:
> http://witch.dyndns.org/stuff/lindows3.png
> 
> Now - what you see is Lindows OS on 1 of my machine, running Word 2000 Hebrew
> - and my resume.
> 
> As you can see - the resume renders perfectly but there is a font problem -
> I'll submit this bug report about that (the same problem appear with Hebrew
> sites on Internet Explorer on Lindows).
> 
> The other problem is to convince Wine to change the keyboard to Hebrew - as
> it is its still thinking it's english even if I use xkb to switch to X hebrew
> keyboard...
> 
> My question to you is - if they'll fix it - will you buy it? (it's $99 for
> Lindows and there is a discount on volume licensing). I need to come with a
> point to Lindows that if they'll add some work for that - they'll have more
> customers...
> 
> The installation of Lindows was done by me from SCRATCH - no windows DLL's or
> any other trick on the book.
> 
> Thanks,
> Hetz
> 
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