-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 May 2003 15:08, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Thursday 01 May 2003 1:44 am, John LeMay wrote:
to setup Agent under Wine ON HIS OWN
I really hadn't played much with Wine until today. Now I've got Boxer (awesome text editor for Windows) and WinZip (just because it was easy and accessible) installed on my 8.1 laptop. I was shocked at how easy it was. CuteFTP is next. Actually, CuteFTP will probably get the most use out of all three assuming it works correctly.
We all are in a "no man's land" in a way. SOME apps. that are very desirable haven't been ported to Linux, yet they also won't run under Wine. Some like TasCut are very desireable in the Linux community.
Fred
Yes, this is true. Though I do follow the wine devlopment and I can honestly say that they are getting very close to solving much of these issues. The biggest issue they seem to be having is the manner in which they have to develop. They obviously aren't going to get an ounce of help for you know who, so they are left having to build on what they know an fill in the gaps - - which I understand is laborious and time consuming to say the least. All I can say is that one can surmize that they are getting very close insofar as M$ has recently sent a threatening letter to the FoxPro on Linux developer and advocate with contentions that he's violating the EULA (M$ bought it up sometime ago). On the upside the runtime is essentially free and open so M$ only has 1/2 a leg to stand on AFAICT. I venture that over the next year wine and its contemporary cousins will make fairly large advances, lest the new kernel threading issue presents unforeseen problems. Overall the project is rolling along at a brisk pace. Cheers, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+stq87WVLiDrqeksRAsNiAJ9pC85bMj2y78ohI27Gmm0gZbSEXACeKzu9 5hn6VGT8yomXBfpTAz0nLu8= =W4iJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----