-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Just tried out the lastest Wine rpm and it's a keeper so far. As you may be aware I have spent a bit of time with wine as and end-user and have written the Unofficial SuSE FAQ for wine and have been involved in a 3 year contributory (as in fee = $5.00/month) with Transgaming. Frankly I have found that the old fashioned wine runs games as well in most cases than WineX/Cedega (and I'm no longer sending Transgaming any money/support) and in some cases better than WineX/Cedega. One of the most difficult games to get running is HomeWorld. Previously if I could get it to work it was very slow and virtually unplayable. With the 0.9.7 version (the stock 10.0 OSS offering had kbd problems) works very very well. The game is very playable and so far no glitches or problems (other than having to be in the Homeworld parent directory to run the exe (e.g. .wine/drive_c/Sierra/HomeWorld/homeworld.exe, otherwise it complains it can't open the "homeworld.big" file). Graphics and Sound work very well. Now the next trick is to get the game "Thief" working - this game has always worked but wouldn't play the cut scenes due problems with a necessary proprietary codec included and installed with the game. If this works I would say that some major hurtles have been overcome. Also, I will be testing various other more recent games and a few apps. If this trend continues I will "finally" be able to say BYE BYE to Windows - since the only real reason I use it is for games and a few (very few) apps. I commend you and the wine devs for their work. It makes me very hopeful that this will further help people escape the bug ridden license hell that is M$. Please send my warmest regards and compliments to the Wine team. Sincerely, Curtis Rey P.S. If this goes as well as I suspect it may I will have to re-write the Wine FAQ due to the changes in the Wine system. Oh well. :) - -- Spammers Beware: Tresspassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! Warning: Individuals throwing objects at the crocodiles will be asked to retrieve them! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD48mN7CQBg4DqqCwRAjdmAKDjkkJIvlsqUmcDfWDiBGCScl9y5QCfS555 YOo9nPsFGHhD/VNlF/gCw3M= =BmTz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----