Nope. Alpha here means "not even beta yet", i.e. very early in it's life. Beta software is software that is not yet "released" as "officially useable" ( otherwise known as "stable") because it's still in the works and

/snip/ the developer doesn't consider it "ready to go" yet.. This has nothing to do with DEC/Compaq ALPHA and in fact I do not belive WINE runs on anything but x86 (AMD/Intel).

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Is there a Window-like SuSE application that supports UltraEdit ??? This editor is much easier to use and efficient than any editor coming with SuSE.

Hey, at least give emacs a fair try in GUI mode (X Windows).

1. WINE is never likely to run on anything but the X86 environment, since it mimics the .dll's that Windows requires, and they are written for the X86 environment. There was a nice article on WINE in a magazine I picked up at LinuxWorld, but I don't have it here. I think its name starts with IT. If I remember, I'll pass that info on tomorrow evening. (It is a useful article, and I WILL try to remember.) 2. WINE has been around for years, and it's always been in ver 0.x. But I think it's in 0.9.x now, not sure. That would mean its owners think it's not too far from ready. 3. Question of my own: For those who have put some real time into WINE, (I am confused a little by what I read in the article), is it necessary now to make a separate partition independent of the Win98 partition to run programs already in the Win98 partition under WINE? That is, do you have to reinstall your Windows apps in a new, non-Win98 partition? 4. Appropos of the last item, I saw and talked to the WIN4LIN people at LinuxWorld. In order to use this, they said, you have to install W4L on you Linux partition, and then INSTALL WINDOWS FROM SCRATCH ON THAT WIN4LIN PROGRAM, INCLUDING ALL YOUR WINDOWS APPS. Apparently, you CANNOT run Windows programs from your installed Windows system. As a result, I did not take advantage of a fairly good show discount. I have some licensed programs that have been thru several upgrades over the years, and I do not wish to have to find the floppies and old CD's in order to go thru the upgrades again. (A lot of Windows programs upgrades require that the old version be installed on the machine before you can upgrade.) (It's also true that if you can find the disk with whatever file the upgrade is looking for, you can fake the system out. Unfortunately, you usually do not know what file it looks for.) 5. EMACS? Good heavens, man, this is the 21st century! Why subject anyone to that kind of torture?