Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-15 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I was an avid OS/2 user at one time, until technology moved on and the logical > switch for most OS/2 users was Linux. > > Your thoughts on using Win3.1 and OS/2 are interesting...except that Win3.1 was > known to run better under OS/2. How ve

RE: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-15 Thread adcarlson
I was an avid OS/2 user at one time, until technology moved on and the logical switch for most OS/2 users was Linux. Your thoughts on using Win3.1 and OS/2 are interesting...except that Win3.1 was known to run better under OS/2. The reason was problem because IBM did a work-around for the bugs th

Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
techlists wrote: I really love the analogy of comparing wine to a crutch. Because that is exactly what it is. An as a crutch, we should not be trying to make the crutch better, rather work on healing the leg so that the crutch is not needed. In this case instead of making windows apps work under

Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-08 Thread BruceG
Yeah, I remember OS/2 all too well. Our office standardized on it and used it for a year or so. We also used OS/2 Lan Server apps, and I got to mess with sharing folders and printer, setting up users and all that good stuff. We eventually migrated to Windows 3.1 and Netware servers. By that time I

Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-08 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 03:24:45PM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > > Anyone remembers OS/2? I think that one important reason why it failed > (among admittedly many others) is that many developers didn't see any > need to write software for it. I've heard/read many times that an OS/2 > versi

Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-08 Thread techlists
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 12:49, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 10:22, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > Christian Schnobrich wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 00:52, David Millet wrote: > > > > > > > > >>> > > >> > > >>Or not until wine begins running these and every windoze app that

Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-08 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 15:24:45 +0100 Christian Schnobrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 00:52, David Millet wrote: > > > > > > Or not until wine begins running these and every windoze app that > > everyone uses flawlessly, which hopefully happens soon. > > No! > please

Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 10:22, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Christian Schnobrich wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 00:52, David Millet wrote: > > > > > >>> > >> > >>Or not until wine begins running these and every windoze app that > >>everyone uses flawlessly, which hopefully happens soon. > > > >

Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Christian Schnobrich wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 00:52, David Millet wrote: Or not until wine begins running these and every windoze app that everyone uses flawlessly, which hopefully happens soon. No! please. Here's my take. I like to play games. I have lots of games. As you are pro