On 14-Aug-98 Michael Johnson wrote:
What's the performance like on Wabi? I've gotten apps to run via Wine but they aren't very fast depending. If one was running apps that run on both, which would be faster?
WABI seems to be pretty fast. I have MS-Office-Pro installed under WABI and perceive no problems. The only application I have run under both WINE and WABI on the same machine is Solitaire, and WABI is definitely faster for this. The only indication that WABI is not "native" comes with the cascading cards at the end: every so often there is a momentary hesitation in the cascade. If you need to use any Win-3.1 applications seriously, then use WABI. Some applications may not work properly (or in some case not at all), but the rest work very well. You can find a list of applications which definitely work in: <A HREF="http://www.caldera.com/products/wabi/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.caldera.com/products/wabi/index.html</A">http://www.caldera.com/products/wabi/index.html</A</A>> and there is a rudimentary FAQ in <A HREF="http://www.caldera.com/support/solutions/wabi-top.html"><A HREF="http://www.caldera.com/support/solutions/wabi-top.html</A">http://www.caldera.com/support/solutions/wabi-top.html</A</A>> There is supposed to be an "add-on" which allows some 32-bit apps to be run in WABI but I have no experience of this. Apart from that possibility, you are limited to Win-3.1 16-bit applications. People who need to use Win-95 applications have told methat the only really satisfactory solution is to use a separate machine dedicated to Win-95, networked to your Linux setup; using a Windows X-emulator such as VNC allows you to access the Win-apps from Linux and vice versa. Sun have stopped supporting WABI so it is not expected that its functionality will be extended. The future of "foreign apps" seems to lie in emulators such as SoftPC which simulate virtual hardware on which an alien OS can run "virtually natively". Hope this helps! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 14-Aug-98 Time: 10:47:50 -------------------------------------------------------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e