Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Win 32 & Linux
![](https://seccdn.libravatar.org/avatar/80cd625828a03997a89871cd1745e88e.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
Zentra, You say that people tend to migrate over to Linux based applications. I have noticed that Mathematica and WordPerfect are available for Linux. I don't know how well they are selling. I'm expect that it is a bit of a social deviance to use software that you actually buy in the Linux community. On the other hand, if Linux were to become as easy to use as 95/NT for the uninitiated, and Linux were capable of running software that people already have invested money in, there would likely be a mass migration from M$ OSs to Linux. As far as running standard Win32 software on intel platforms goes, there is no need for emulating the CPU as is done with a Sparc. All that needs to be done is to emulate the Win32 API. I am not a stellar programmer, so that "all" could be a lot more than I am making it sound like. The main reason that I bring this up is not to dismiss the programming effort required, but to observe that the intel based Win32 programs should perform at least as well under Linux as under M$ OSs. Steve zentara wrote:
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
Is there any support in Linuxverse for Win32? I know many may ask 'why I should care?' Well, I just think it would be cool to show this to my MS-Borg boss, and say "look, Linux can do that too!"
No support for win32's, although the Wine (Windows Emulator) is working on it, and there is a version of it on the Suse cdrom. It works with alot of programs, but is still quite buggy; and cannot be relied on. BUT THEY'RE WORKING ON IT!!! :-)
WABI is a windows 3.1 emulator that SUN developed to run on UNIX systems. It only runs in 256 colors, dosn't support sound, and is no longer being supported or developed by SUN.
It runs really well under linux. The price has recently just dropped to 49 US dollars!!!!. It used to be 150.
Everyone had high hopes that SUN would continue with it, and get WABI to run win32's ; but they figure there really isn't a demand for it. Most linux users quickly switch to pure linux apps, or they dual boot to win95 or NT.
zentara
-- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
-- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
participants (1)
-
hattons@CPKWEBSER5.ncr.disa.mil