On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, ds wrote:
Someone had mentioned to me once that there was some sort of project underway to run windows apps under Linux. Does anyone know anything about this? Does it exist? Does it work?
You're referring to a package called wine. It's in the emulators package set on most LInux distributions including SuSE. There's a usenet newsgroup supporting it, comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine. The main web site for the package is http://winehq.com As to whether it works - sort of. It is officially in alpha release, and as far as I can recall nobody has predicted a beta release any time this year. It works with some Windows software. Some software crashes it. Some software just doesn't run right, or runs right to a point but then has issues. (E.g. changing CDs in a multi-CD game.) Development is active, however. There is a major alpha release in the last few days of every month. For the hard-core, there are minor alpha releases daily. If you want something reasonably stable that can be installed on SuSE without a lot of twisting around, only get releases from www.SuSE.com (they are rather less frequent). -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/