Scott Ritchie wrote: > nn wrote: >> >> >> WINE and the importance of application compatibility >> >> http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012751o-2000630136b,00.htm >> >> >> > > It's a good article, though it's sad to see a mention of "WineX" as a > serious alternative to Wine. WineX was obsolete years ago (and the > consensus about its successor Cedega on the various web forums seems > to be that it's often substantially behind Crossover Games). > The article stated that most of it was a few years old. > Codeweavers, you need to do a better job letting people know Crossover > Games exists. > WE need to get to the point where most of the common business type applications will run in Wine without a bunch of twiddling and fixes. The average "Joe" user will not put up with this. I've been on this mantra for a long time. Build a better mousetrap built on an OS that is more robust and market it correctly and you will have the world at your fingertips. Witness the comparision between Windows and OS/2. OS/2 was technically superior but had problems running most of the current software. It 'died' and Windows lived on. The same could be said about Linux/Wine at its current state. I need Wine to run a few Windows applications, one of which will not be made for either Linux or Mac. Thus, I have to have Windows compatibility or Windows itself. I don't feel like 'polluting' my system, so I need API compatibilty. Wine delivers this for me. The problem is that I need another Windows program to run. I'm going to work on it and report bugs as they occur. I may also start running Winetest to see what works and what does not. Hopefully, with the recent release of XQuartz 2.3.3, most of the problems have gone away.
James McKenzie > Thanks, > Scott Ritchie > > >
