wine

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> M.W. Chang wrote:
> >
> > I have setup Redhat 8 at my workstation. I would like to try the wine
> > emulator. Where can I find a dummy's guide? For example, how could I
> > start IE from wine? What files do I need to copy from the Window
> > partition or download from M$?
>
>
> Others will probably have a different view, but I always found getting
> wine to actually work to be a near impossible task - for 3rd degree
> gurus only.

To a degree i agree with that.  the problem is that every 'release' of
wine changes things so its always a moving target.  on top of that, every
wine release behaves differently on different linux distros.


>
> Download a demo of Crossover Office is the best way.

that's good advice if you have the $$ and xover actually can run what you
need it to.  My understanding is that xover is trweaked to run specific
windoze apps really well, and others not at all.

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