Do we need wine 47

To try and clear up some misconceptions...

On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:25:46 -0500, General Schvantzkoph

Not absolutely true. Depends on the games. Cedega will do a good job Windows games have been ported to Linux. And there's no reason Linux can't become a fine gaming system if the market share gets large enough to spur game makers to write more for Linux. Time and market share will tell there.

Well, very few really do in an absolute sense, but it would still be a nice feature, if for no other reason than to eliminate the need to create FAT32 parbreastions for sharing data, copying stuff back and forth to that data parbreastion, etc.

You mean Windows Media *files*, not players.

Same thing applies here as with the gaming situation, but less so. Linux does a pretty good job with multimedia already. Ya just gotta know what you're doing with setup.

OO.org has been the default office suite in my business since v1.1. We haven't had any problems exporting and sharing stuff, but admittedly we do mostly fairly simple documents. At any rate, I can't go along with calling the .doc export function "terrible", from our considerable experience it would have to be rated a least "fair". Maybe it's somewhat of a problem with more elaborate stuff, but it's been trouble-free for us. I have no major complaints to make about OpenOffice, and no one has made a single complaint to me since making the changeover.

I've used Win4Lin (9x) for 5+ years, and it's excellent, very fast and rock-stable. But it's not true it will run *anything* Win98 running natively will. Almost, yes, but the main exceptions are some games or other apps that require hardware DirectX support. It does support some *software* DirectX, but that's of fairly limited value.

Depends on what your requirements are. If Win4LinPro's capabilities meet your needs, it's only a little slower than VMware (at this time, getting a little better with each release) and a lot cheaper. I've run Win4LinPro for thousands of hours of use in the last year and it works pretty well, though much better with Win2k than that friggin' fat hog XP. But then Win2k is much better than XP in any situation. There's also Parallels (a VMware knock-off for 1-3 the price), qmeu (free) kqmeu (free qemu accelerator) and others. Potential users should realize that VMware was never intended to be a common consumer emulator for everyday work, hench the high price. It was intended as, and is still best suited for and marketed as by VMware themselves, a professional developer's platform.

-- Registered Linux user #266531