Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4600 mails)

[scsijon <scsijon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And I expect Wine to stay ALPHA until m$ has been erased from the universe, 
else it would not be trying to keep up with all the patches and changes 
they are attempting to innoculate the web and it's workstations with to 
their own betterment.

scsijon

At 05:54 PM 7/01/2004, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:53:40 -0500
> > "Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Monday 05 January 2004 12:48 pm, Gary wrote:
> [snip]
> > > The advantage of Wine is that it would not require a copy of Windows.
> > Agreed. Let's put the 3 into perspective as to what they are:
> > VMWare - Generalized virtual machine for running multiple operating
> > systems simultaneously. Win4Lin - A Linux based virtual machine that 
> > allows you to run a copy of
> > Windows 9x concurrently with Linux. WINE - a set of libraries and 
> > emulator where you can run many Windows
> > programs. Software vendors can also use the libraries to port their
> > products.
> > Each is different and fits different needs.
> So being the 'freeloader' WINE is the better choice as it is Windows 
> version forward and backward compatible ie XP, Longhorn, whatever in 2006, 
> 3.11, 9x, NT? Pity it is still ALPHA :(
>
> I hope the next version of WINE supports Novell or that they give Win4Lin 
> away in the boxed sets :)
>
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