Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3254 mails)

[Quinton Delpeche <quintond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Wine and WineX are very similar, although Wine is specifically aimed at
applications and WineX is spefically aimed at Games.

WineX -- provides wrappers for the DirectX components and therefore
allows DirectX games to run.

Wine -- provides wrappers for the more standard Windows components.


I haven't tried it myself, but you could probably run Apps under WineX,
but I prefer to run both Wine and WineX where neccessary for their
individual purposes.

Regards
Q

On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 23:24, Jeric wrote:
> Hi,
> What is the difference between wine and wineX?  Is wineX /just/ for games,
> or can it do applications also? Because it looks like it has better support
> for games then wine, but I haven't seen anything as to applications that is
> supports.  Is it possible to run both at the same time (wineX for my games,
> and wine for applications?)
> 
> I only have one (of several) computers left that still runs windows, but I
> need it for several programs and, of course, games.  I am chained to windows
> because I have programs such as: dreamweaverUltraDev4, flash5,
> visualStudio.net, photoshop6, and bryce5.  I know most of these have a
> somewhat comparable cousin in Linux, but I have come accustom to these
> particular ones, and don't want to have to relearn new apps (or re-purchase
> their equivalents).  Plus, some are going to have serious issues being
> ported over (like .net).  Also, I need a gaming computer, so I need
> something that can run games pretty well, too.
> 
> What is an inexpensive way to do this if Wine or WineX is not the way to go?
> I looked at VMWare, but almost 300 dollars is a little much with its current
> limitations, and no upgrade insurance.  Hardware requirements (i.e. extra
> ram, hdd space, cpu power, etc.) are not an issue.
> 
> thanks,
> jeric
> 
> 
> 
> 
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